Royal Signals Museum

The Royal Signals Museum is a military museum based at Blandford Camp in the civil parish of Tarrant Monkton, northwest of the town of Blandford Forum in Dorset, England.

Royal Signals Museum
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Shown in Dorset
Established1930s (opened on present site 1967)
LocationBlandford Camp, Tarrant Monkton, Dorset
Coordinates50.868°N 2.125°W / 50.868; -2.125
TypeRegimental museum
Websitewww.royalsignalsmuseum.com

History

The Royal Signals Museum was founded in Catterick, North Yorkshire during the 1930s. It moved to its current location of Blandford Camp in 1967. An appeal which generated £1 million enabled the construction of a new wing in 1995 and complete refurbishment of the exhibits completed in 1997. The museum was reopened in its new form on 28 May 1997.[1]

Collections

The museum is the United Kingdom national museum of army communications. It presents the role of communications in wars and military campaigns over the last 150 years. One of the main attractions is the throne surrendered by King Prempeh I of the Ashanti Empire to the Telegraph Battalion of the Royal Engineers in 1896 during the Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War.[2]

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See also

References
  1. "About us". Royal Signals Museum. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  2. Sterling, Christopher H. (2007). Military Communications: From Ancient Times to the 21st Century. ABC_CLIO. p. 474. ISBN 978-1851097326.
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