The Keep Military Museum

Thousands of original exhibits of military history relating to the regiments of Devonshire and Dorset

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Object spotlight 🔦

An original design for the Regimental window in the Regimental Chapel - St James and St Thomas in Exeter Cathedral.

The window was dedicated on 3rd June 1976. The colour painting is signed Fredk W Cole, 17.7.73.

DORMM:1976/54

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The In-person talk this month is on Field Marshall Lord Roberts. Tickets are to be purchased on the door. £5 per person CASH ONLY. Talk begins at 6:30pm.

This month's online WMHG talk via Zoom - The Battle of The Ruhr 1943 - has been moved to 6:00pm on the 1st of May.

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General Service Medal 1918-62 with clasp Iraq, awarded to, Private Albert James Ash, 6th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment and later, 1/6th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, serving in Mesopotamia.

DORMM:2025/15

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Regimental Ashtray, white with gold trim. In the centre of the ashtray is a drawing of a street map of Lyme Regis.

DORMM:2013/2019

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Two membes of the Devonshire Regiment and a dog. Captioned on reverse 'Swiggy Weston, Company Sergeant Major, Company Sergeant Major Nutty Craze. Blackdown Camp 1926'

DORMM:2009/1533

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Sergeant Cyril Stubbs and friends, India, 1936. From the collection of, Sergeant Cyril Stubbs, 1st Battalion, Devonshire Regiment.

DORMM:2005/911/2

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This India General Service Medal was awarded to Corporal R Sweet, 2nd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment. With the clasp Burma 1889-1892.

DORMM:2016/152

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Calling All Authors!
We’re excited to announce an upcoming Book Fair in support of The Dorchester Keep Military Museum Trust - and we’d love for YOU to be part of it!

Limited stalls available, so don’t miss out! Get in touch now to reserve your space or learn more.

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12th (Airborne) Battalion Devonshire Regiment. The photo shows a team of six men, dressed in the normal Parachute Smocks, wearing berets with the Devonshire Regiment cap badge, manning an anti tank field gun in a garden across the road from a large building.

DORMM:2009/541

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Three unidentified Officers studying documents, possibly maps, on the bonnet of a vehicle.

DORMM:1999/126/10

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5th (Prince of Wales) Battalion Devonshire Regiment, on a night exercise, using 'Artificial Moonlight', Okehampton, February 1950.

DORMM:2007/1685/1

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Object spotlight 🔦

The badge of the Devonshire Regiment carved in chalk, 80mm in diameter and 18mm thick. Most likely from the First World War.

DORMM:2007/1505

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A medical service, Meritorious Service Medal. Awarded to Acting Sergeant A G Avent, 15th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment.

DORMM:EX1836

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4 Dorset (TA) Boxing Team. Winners of the Astor Cup, 43rd Wessex Divisional Boxing, 1935.

DORMM:2011/798

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A Brief History of HMS Dorsetshire is available to watch NOW on our YouTube channel:
https://t.co/Ie92Zrl5k7

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photograph of Devon Territorials, showing a troop train with 4 men standing on the platform as others look out the train windows.

Printed inscription reads 'With the Devon Territorials to India. Leaving Tidworth for Southampton, 9th October 1914.'

DORMM:2007/1550/2

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Tickets for the in-person talk at Dorchester ARC are to be purchased on the door. £5 per person CASH ONLY.

For more information on the Zoom talk, email [email protected]

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In this installment of our Collection Highlights series, we take a closer look at the story behind one of the most talked about items in our museum: Hitler’s desk.
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As the county regiment for: Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Durham, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Somerset and Wiltshire - The Rifles is the largest regiment in the British army.

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Cold weather and good books, we've got your winter reading sorted.

Our online shop stocks a range of military history books perfect for a long evening - from regimental stories and campaigns to personal accounts.

Browse the full selection online: https://t.co/v6J81TvKBA