The Royal Green Jackets Museum
Winchester
The Battle Of Waterloo
The finest and largest display you will ever see is housed in a museum
Her Majesty the Queen, the Colonel-in-Chief of The Royal Green Jackets, was able to open the new Museum on December 1st 1989 following the expanding and redesigning of the building. The Museum graphically and, I hope, entertainingly, tells the story of the four proud Regiments - the 43rd, the 52nd, the 60th and the 95th, The Rifle Brigade - who, having each had such a distinguished record in the past, progressively, successfully and voluntarily came together, bringing their deeds and traditions with them, to form the Royal Green Jackets we know today. The story is, of course, as with so much of the British Army, one of courage, but it is also one of originality, innovation and even unorthodoxy, leading to invariably being in the forefront of military thinking, whether in North America, the Peninsula, the Western Desert or in the airborne operations in Normandy and across the Rhine; and also to a particularly good and easy relationship between officers and men. All this the Museum will aim to bring out chronologically and the visitor will be able to note how the basic traditions and characteristics have flowed consistently from the old to the new. We are specially fortunate that our predecessors have collected and preserved so much of historical interest and pleased that it is now possible to present the fruits of their foresight to a wider audience in the setting they deserve.