A joint statement has been issued on the closure of the Essex Regiment Museum wing at Chelmsford. I think I am even more concerned now about the collection being split uo. www.royalanglianregiment.com/wp-content/u...

Big news today - the Essex Regiment Wing & huge archives at Chelmsford Museum closes on 1 Jan and moves to the Royal Anglian Museum at Duxford. Not enough info yet to know whether to be happy or not but there is bound to be disruption to access over the next year www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Suffolk and Cambridge Regiments' Museum have a exhibition on POW's at Bury St Edmunds

West Essex Branch of Essex FHS talk - Life of a Bomber Crew in WW2 Speaker: Mike Wainright 2.30 Saturday 27 September 2025
For more info - www.esfh.org.uk/branches/har...

Just home from a visit to the Somme.This time I was based at Peronne on the south west of the Somme. Among the places I visited was Maricourt where the British and French lines met on 1 July 1916. It made me realise what a long was it was from the Belgian coast to Maricourt with trenches all the way

War memorial plaque. St. Andrew’s Church, Hempstead, Essex. First World War. #LestWeForget

The Gallipoli Association have a current appeal for funds to help preserve the battlefield history at Gallipoli. May be a great fit if your firm is looking for a different charity to support.

Please with the post this morning as I have managed to buy a copy of At Some Disputed Barricade - the story of the 9th Battalion, Essex Reg by Hugh Edwards which I have been hunting for several years.

Sentry for the 1st Wessex Alpaca Battalion on exercise somewhere in the UK!

“and in that last muster shall be found these our own beloved”

A great re-enactment pic of @britishbersagliere.bsky.social‬ on the front time defending the airfield at Stow Maries in Essex. Mike - I don't fancy the heat on tuesday either & I am wearing shorts but what's worst in WW1 uniforms - Too Heat, Too Cold or Too Wet?

I visited Tyne Cot last week and as always the sheer numerical scale of the 3,600+ headstones hits you the minute you walk in but then the huge size overwhelms the senses despite not having the intimacy with the fallen of the smaller sites. The Essex names on the wall of the missing is below.

The Royal Anglian Museum has placed over 4000 items online including 56 Essex Regiment items. www.royalanglianregiment.com/museum/colle...

It's Regional Conference week and it's not to late to join us.

To book visit the Great War Huts or Gallipoli Association websites

@essex100.bsky.social - Sounds a lovely talk at Hadleigh and a great photo. Even the speaker has an appropriate name Houndsell) for this talk!

Remembering my relative Norman Bottoms of the 147th Essex Yeomanry who died during the Normandy invasion 81 years ago today. Surving the initial landings he was killed by mortar fire in a field supporting the infantry moving forward. Just 23. @ww2headquarters.bsky.social

Essex FHS West Essex Branch Meeting Talk & Zoom - Topic: Land Girls - The Women's Land Army Speaker: Carol Harris Date: Saturday 7 June 2025 2:30pm More details from www.esfh.org.uk/branches/har...

By 1944 the vehicle establishment for an Infantry Battalion was 5 cycles, 26 Motorcycles, 12 Cars, 44 Trucks, 7 Trailers and 38 Carriers for people and equipment.

I have has a query about the 4th Essex in Italy in 1944 that I can't answer- Does anyone know what a VHC course would be listed in a mans service record. My guess is that it may be vehicle health check as the many battalion vehicles had to be checked regularly but that is a guess not an answer.

Simon- I don't think that the Regimental museum will be in the same building still but they have said that from today they are getting a temporary site and later a new area at Duxford. Sorry I worded it poorly as I was running out of characters!!

Not so good news from @simonjones.bsky.social‬ but no doubt in a few years someone will come up with the bright idea of opening a new Land Warfare area at Duxford where there is plenty of space! Selfishly good news for me is that Royal Anglian Museum will be greatly enlarged in the vacated space.

By the early 20th century, sampler-making had moved into new contexts. This 1917 piece from Kenneth, serving in Egypt with the Essex Regiment, was sent home during WWI—stitched with love, memory, and perhaps hope.

Fancy some hands on history voluntary work? The RAF Bradwell Bay Preservation Group needs your help in manning their exhibition at Othona, Bradwell on Sea on Saturdays and Sundays from 12 – 4. No experience required & days to suit. More info from Eric Simonelli via www.facebook.com/groups/Bradw...

On 4 May 2025 a service was held at the Essex Regiment Chapel at Warley to remember Gallipoli & the service of the 1st,4th,5th,6th,7th & 1st Garrison Battalions of Essex Regiment. Karen Dennis, wrote about the day in the Gallipoli Association newsletter. www.gallipoli-association.org/news/2025/co...