This collection of Army temperance medals demonstrates the efforts made by officers and soldiers in the 19th and early 20th centuries to resist the temptation, and avoid the perils, of the demon drink.
In September 1918, Captain Gerald Uloth and his regiment arrived in Transcaspia in Central Asia to reinforce a British mission tasked with resisting enemy influence in the area.
This cavalry regiment was raised as an East India Company unit in 1858. It soon transferred to British Army service and existed until 1922, when it was merged into the 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars.
This armoured regiment was formed in 1922 by merging two cavalry units. It fought in several campaigns until 1993, when it became part of The Queen’s Royal Lancers.
The National Army Museum is publishing the story of Captain Allastair McReady-Diarmid, exactly 100 years after his death at Moeuvres, near Cambrai. The fighting along the Canal du Nord in the Moeuvres sector was especially fierce and between 30 November and 1 December 1917 McReady-Diarmid demonstrated such bravery and leadership that he was awarded the Victoria Cross.
This cavalry regiment was formed in 1685. It went on to serve in many British Army campaigns until 1958, when it became part of The Queen’s Own Hussars.
This unit was the senior line cavalry regiment of the British Army. Formed in 1685, it had a long and distinguished history until 1959, when it was merged into the 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards.
