The Regimental Museum Trust is responsible for the Regimental Museum, established in 1979 to protect the collection of artifacts acquired since the foundation of the 8th (Scottish) Volunteer Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment) in 1900. This and its successor units are generally known as The Liverpool Scottish

Associated with the Army Museum Ogilby Trust and the Association of Independent Museums

Liverpool Scottish Regimental Museum Trust (Reg Charity 277953)
Maintained Entirely by Voluntary and Regimental Donations

Post COVID restrictions


As we emerge from the 18 months of restrictions, we are dealing with enquiries in a reasonable timescale. Please remember the request to make the initial £5 donation. If you wish to visit please make an appointment as we are generally in the archive office, normally on Wednesdays but days can vary at short notice.


The Cost Of Research

All members of the museum trust are unpaid, providing their efforts voluntarily. The trust, completely unfunded by any public source, does still face significant running costs including the costs due to compulsory relocation. With queries often taking four of five hours to research many military museums make a £25 charge or charge around £15 or £20 an hour. Similarly the provision of the content of this site incurs costs, though these are limited due to the generous donation of webspace by our hosting provider TSOHost.

Previously we have accepted and researched all queries and then relied on voluntary donations. We are very grateful for those donations we subsequently receive - all donations are by definition generous! Unfortunately, a substantial proportion of our responses are unacknowledged. We have therefore reluctantly decided to request an initial token donation of £5 to begin processing a query regarding historic members of the Liverpool Scottish (and other veterans) or other queries regarding regimental history and uniform. This can be done through PayPal (using a PayPal account or any credit card). We hope that those who feel that they receive something of value or simply wish to support our project will make a further donation on receipt our full response. Please see the 'Research' tab for further details and exceptions to this condition. 

Further donations can be made via PayPal using the 'Donate' button below or directly to the Secretary, cheques should be made payable to the Liverpool Scottish Regimental Museum Trust. His address can be found on the Contact Us page.

 


Centenary of Death of Colonel C. Forbes Bell VD

On 7th July it was the centenary of the death of Colonel Christopher Forbes Bell VD. while actually the second Colonel of the Battalion he in almost all ways was the founder of the Liverpool Scottish. A short biography is here

 

Hooge Day 2021

Wreath laying at Liverpool Scottish Stone Bellewaarde Ridge Wednesday 16 June 2021 1800 British Time – Live Stream

 Niek Benoot at Hooge Crater Museum and Café arranged a wreath-laying at the Liverpool Scottish Stone at Hooge on 16th June 2021. a video of the event can be found at https://www.facebook.com/HoogeCraterMuseum

 

 

Campbell Diary Exhibition

For the first time, anywhere, in a century, the Liverpool Scottish Regimental Museum Trust was able to exhibit, in central Liverpool, images from the important illustrated diary of Private William Henry Campbell.

If you would like to learn more click HERE.

 

 The Regimental March

 

A some what controversial change to the site was removing the automatic Regimental March from the Home Page. We are trying to attract a wider range of visitors and researchers, the march blasting out in an office or library is simply not appropriate.  You can still find it on the Pipe Tunes Page, but if you really must (Ian) here is a button.

The Archive

Obviously due to Coronavirus the Archive is now closed until further notice.


The Archive now resides in offices on Eberle Street, Liverpool L2 were visits there are strictly by appointment only, generally on Wednesdays. This should be arranged through the Honorary Secretary or the Honorary Curator whose telephone and postal details are on the contacts page. We are still in the process of moving the stored artifacts to a new location as well as organizing their reassignment to other collections. Our digitization programme has continued and we now have over 50,000 readable images from our archive collection.

The Museum Trust's artifacts are in secure storage and we are in the process of transferring the core of the collection to the Museum of Liverpool where it will be held as the Liverpool Scottish collection. This is a long and complex process. In common with all museums, the Museum of Liverpool will not be able to exhibit all these items but elements are to be seen; in the displays in the new Museum of Liverpool Building on the Pier Head. This is the largest museum to open in the country for nearly 100 years. Other elements of the collection may be transferred to other museums with Lancashire or Cameron Highlanders affinities; negotiations are in progress. A small display has been mounted at a Territorial Army location in Liverpool and it may be possible for accompanied access to be arranged: this depends on the availability of volunteers. More background to the decision not to re-display the collection will be included in the next newsletter.

It is planned that images and descriptions of many of our artifacts in the collection that were previously on display will be available in the future. We are aware that the website needs extensive amendment to represent our new status but again this will be a gradual process for a limited group of volunteers.

 

Further donations can be made via PayPal using the 'Donate' button below or directly to the Secretary, cheques should be made payable to the Liverpool Scottish Regimental Museum Trust. His address can be found on the Contact Us page.