The Museum Collection

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The Museum collection is an almost unique representation of a Territorial infantry regiment in its passage through the last hundred years and includes material referring to Liverpool Scottish Rifle Volunteers that goes back to 1859. It includes a collection of rare Highland uniforms and accoutrements dating from 1900, medals and decorations, equipment and weapons and a very important collection of over 4000 photographs, the documentation of which is constantly updated as new sources come to light. There is a collection of diaries and scrapbooks such as

together with an excellent assemblage of the ephemera which military life produces.

 

Much material remains in the hands of families but to which the Museum has access. For example,Chvasse VC Dinner menu Detail (Chas Clark)

Material continues to come to the Museum both from Liverpool families and those spread more widely.

At Forbes House, the location until June 1999, display cases were organized to illustrate the early history of the Liverpool Scottish Rifle Volunteers (from 1859), the formation of the Volunteer battalion and its part in the Boer War and the Great War. Other cases reflected the role of the Liverpool Scottish soldiers who formed part of the Commando forces and the connection between The Liverpool Scottish and The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. Click here to see cases containing

A very plain white china chamber pot appeared in a case with the splendid dress uniform of Colonel C. Forbes Bell VD, the Regiment's first Commanding Officer. In the bottom of the pot is set a glass disk, a monocle, dropped from the eye of the Adjutant of the Regiment early in its history at a review in Edinburgh as he rode behind the Commanding Officer. The men of the Liverpool Scottish are said to have marched over the monocle as it lay on the parade ground, to be picked up later and set into the chamber pot which is known as 'The Adjutant's Eye', and was used for drinking toasts in the Sergeants' Mess.

An example of recent acquistion

There is a fine collection of Liverpool Scottish badges and insignia representing all phases of the history.

The Museum maintains an extensive database of soldiers who served, founded on original material in its possession supplemented by extensive research, which records many details of origin and service. The Museum is in contact with researchers, both professional and amateur, who share an interest in The Liverpool Scottish.

It is intended to expand this to be a more complete account of the Regimental Museum collection.

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