{"id":12106,"date":"2014-08-12T02:30:43","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T01:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12106"},"modified":"2014-08-12T02:30:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T01:30:43","slug":"recent-visit-to-a-museum-in-salisbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12106","title":{"rendered":"Visit to a Museum in Salisbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years regiments have been amalgamated. The Royal Berkshire Regiment, in which a lot of Abingdon men served, eventually became The Rifles &#8211; along with several other county named regiments.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14081206.jpg\" alt=\"Royal Berkshire Regiment\" \/><br \/>\nThe museum that holds the collections for two of those regiments: the Royal Berkshire Regiment, and Wiltshire Regiment, is in Salisbury in Wiltshire, and is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewardrobe.org.uk\/\">The Wardrobe.<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14081210.jpg\" alt=\"Royal Berkshire Regiment\" \/><br \/>\nThere are probably more Wiltshire, than Berkshire, exhibits on display but given the location within view of Salisbury Cathedral that is understandable.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14081207.jpg\" alt=\"Royal Berkshire Regiment\" \/><br \/>\nJust inside the entrance there are some army banners. Next to one Royal Berkshire Regiment banner a label says <em>&#8220;Following the Opium War of 1841, the 49th Regiment (later the Royal Berkshire) was authorised to wear the Dragon and the word &#8216;China&#8217; emblazoned with its colours.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14081208.jpg\" alt=\"Royal Berkshire Regiment\" \/><br \/>\nNot on display, but viewable on their web site, the museum have some pictures of Abingdon soldiers, and people, that can be ordered. There are some of of an early &#8220;<em>Abingdon contingent assembling on Abingdon Railway station on route to their war time station after the start of the 1st World War.&#8221;<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years regiments have been amalgamated. The Royal Berkshire Regiment, in which a lot of Abingdon men served, eventually became The Rifles &#8211; along with several other county named regiments. The museum that holds the collections for two of those regiments: the Royal Berkshire Regiment, and Wiltshire Regiment, is in Salisbury in Wiltshire, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}