In this month's episode, Col Andy Taylor and Rev Paul Roberts explore the contents of some of the Museum's cabinets - including a trip down memory lane for anyone who experienced army "compo" rations from the 1960s to the 1990s.
They look too at some exhibits dating from the Volunteer Service Companies' time in the Boer War in 1900, including ghost-dated medals, rare tunics and the strangest of Christmas cards. We also hear of the Hull brothers - Percy, later Sir Percy Hull organist of Hereford Cathedral interned in 1914 in Germany and his brother Claude who served with the Volunteers in South Africa and died with the Canadian Field Artillery in the Great War.
Dry throats lead our hosts to the Rose and Crown pub at Tupsley, just up the road from the Museum. Here during the Second World War, the local Home Guard had its Company HQ, we find out how the building has changed and whether a HQ at a pub was a good idea anyway.
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Theme Tune - The Lincolnshire Poacher, performed by the outstanding Haverhill Silver Band.