Buckinghamshire Military Museum Trust

PICTURE (TOP):
Workers at
Marlow Brewery
around 1900.
  • The Bucks Great War Virtual Trail:





LEFT:
Volunteers marching Through Aylesbury's Market Square in 1915.



BELOW:
The same position in the square today.

 

This 'Virtual Trail' brings together photographs of the county mobilised for war between 1914 and 1919 and contrasts them with a view of the same location today, giving a sense of the immediacy of the past within the present – whether it's the Royal Bucks Hussars at Buckingham, the Bucks Battalion leaving Aylesbury, the 21st Division at Halton, women munitions workers at High Wycombe, hospitals at Chequers and Cliveden, or the unveiling of the war memorials at Stewkley and The Lee.

The Virtual Trail, which is on the Trust's website, includes 150 photographs
showing wartime activities across the county.

Newly added to the website is a three-part 1995 film on Buckinghamshire in the Second World War, originally produced for schools and featuring interviews with those who experienced war on the home front and overseas. This film has not been available for more than 20 years. See Bucks in WW2 Film and scroll down.
  • Who we are:
  • The Buckinghamshire Military Museum Trust preserves the heritage of the local military units raised in the historic county of Buckinghamshire from the 1500s onwards, including the Militia, Yeomanry, Volunteerrs, Territorials and Home Guard.
  • Our base is the Old Gaol Museum in Buckingham, which reopened on 15 October after being closed since March due to the Covid-19 epidemic.
  • Our activities:
  • A virtual exhibition on the role of the First Buckinghamshire Battalion and the 99th Royal Bucks Yeomanry Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, in the May 1940 campaign will be on our website in October and November.
  • Opening times and enquiries:
  • The Old Gaol Museum is open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 10am to 4pm..
    For all enquiries about the Trust, please email ian.beckett@bmmt.co.uk.

Thanks to Ian Beckett of the Bucks Military Museum Trust for providing content for this page.