Surrey Infantry Museum
Formerly the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment Museum,
previously located at Clandon Park, Surrey
Clandon Fire and the Museum
On April 29th 2015 Clandon Park, including the Surrey Infantry Museum, was destroyed by fire and our lease with the National Trust who owns the property was cancelled.
Most of the salvaged artifacts from the museum have now been transferred to the PWRR & Queens Museum at Dover Castle with some of the medal collection remaining at the Surrey History Centre and with small displays at Guildford Museum and the Lightbox in Woking.
The Medal Collection at the Surrey Infantry Museum in Clandon Park House prior to the 2015 fire
Scroll down the above to see the list of medals in the collection and in some cases photographs of the medals and the recipient.
Sadly this was an ongoing project that the staff and volunteers were still working on prior to the fire and the photographs on here are the only thing we have left of many of the medals that were destroyed by the fire.
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Please note that the regimental collection of historic documents, books and photograph albums has now been transferred to the Surrey History Centre.
The Surrey History Centre will now be dealing with research enquiries relating to The Queen's Royal, East Surrey and Queen's Royal Surrey Regiments (2nd, 31st and 70th Foot). The Collection is also available for public consultation.
For further information please contact:-
Surrey History Centre
130 Goldsworth Road
Woking, Surrey
GU21 6ND
Tel: 01483 518737
Email: shs@surreycc.gov.uk
Website: https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/surreyhistoryservice
CLICK HERE FOR IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STOLEN MEDALS »
The Museum's Collection administrative functions are now managed from the PWRR & Queens Museum at Dover Castle (01304 240121) The Museum, in anticipation of re-establishing its presence within the County of Surrey, is accepting artefacts to rebuild its collection. If you possess material relating to the Queens Royal Surrey Regiment (or its forebears) and would like to donate it to the Museum Collection, please contact the Surrey History Centre at the address above or speak to our research volunteers who attend the Surrey History Centre on a Tuesday or they can be contacted by email at qrsinform@gmail.com or by leaving a message on 01483 770761
Following the amalgamation of The Queen’s Royal Regiment and the East Surrey Regiment in 1959, the ownership and management of museum artefacts and archives was vested in The Queen’s Royal Surrey Regiment Museum Trust. Following the closure of Regimental Headquarters and Museum in the Keep at Kingston–upon–Thames the artefacts had to be put in store. Thanks to the efforts of Colonel JW Sewell agreement was reached with the National Trust for use of rooms in the basement at Clandon Park. The museum opened in 1981. Major upgrades took place in 2001 and 2011; the later with half funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund. In the same year, the Museum Trustees concluded that it was in the best long term interests to merge with the Trustees of the museum of the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment and Queen’s Regiment. This took place on 1st July 2011. The museum was renamed: The Surrey Infantry Museum.
Special thanks must be recorded to all the Trustees who have supported the museum since its establishment together with special thanks to our outstanding curators: Jean-Ann Stock, Richard Ford, Penny James and Ian Chatfield. They would want the many Volunteers who supported them so generously to be acknowledged.
Finally, all the regimental family would want to thank Lieutenant Colonel Les Wilson MBE for his commitment, encyclopaedic knowledge of regimental history and hard work.
Related
The Former Friends of Surrey Infantry Museum (FOSIM)
Past FOSIM events
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Surrey Infantry Museum
Update 2019 »»
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The fire at Clandon Park
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Clandon Park
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Main entrance to Clandon Park, the Corps of Drums, 1st Bn The Queen's Regiment line the steps, October 1989
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The Officers' Club celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Salerno, September 1943. Many of the officers who took part were present.
