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Collection Highlights

Last updated: 26 January 2012

Uncover the past as members of the Museum staff tell the incredible stories behind some of their favourite objects from the Collection.

Amputation saw and bloody glove from the Battle of Waterloo

Amputation Saw

Leah Birch presents the saw that was used to amputate the Earl of Uxbridge's leg at the Battle of Waterloo.

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Battle of Isandlwana

Battle of Isandlwana

Emma Mawdsley presents a painting by Charles Fripp depicting the British defeat at Isandlwana during the Zulu War (1879).

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Belsen Medical Kit

Belsen Medical Kit

Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel Jedge H Lewin of the Blues and Royals examines a medical kit used to aid Holocaust survivors during the liberation of Belsen in 1945.

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Bleeding kit

Bleeding Kit

Andrew Robertshaw presents a 19th-century bleeding kit for treating the ill and infirm.

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Charge of the Light Brigade

Charge of the Light Brigade

Julian Farrance presents the order that launched the Charge of the Light Brigade (25 October 1854).

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King Charles I's warrant

Charles I’s Warrant

Dr Alastair Massie presents a warrant signed by King Charles I authorising Lord Willoughby of Eresby to raise the King's Lifeguard.

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Coatee from the Crimean War

Coatee from the Crimean War

Erica Arnold presents a coatee belonging to a British officer during the Crimean War.

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Coin from the Battle of Wandiwash

Coin from the Battle of Wandiwash

Michael Ball presents an Irish coin recovered from the site of the Battle of Wandiwash (1760).

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Crimean War Journal

Dr Alastair Massie presents the Crimean War campaign journal of Captain Mark Walker.

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Denison Smock

Denison Smock

Sam Doty presents a denison smock worn by a paratrooper during Operation Market Garden (September 1944).

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