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 Green Howards News Archive
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THE SUN SHINES ON OUR PARADE
24th May 2010
Once again we were blessed with glorious weather and the whole town seemed to be buzzing with anticipation and excitement. The Green Howards were back ... >>
CONTALMAISON 10 YEARS ON
13th May 2010
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OBJECT OF THE MONTH: MAY 2010 GENERAL SAMUEL IRWIN TOWNSEND
13th May 2010
At ... >>
JANE AUSTEN AND THE MILITARY AS SEEN THROUGH HER LETTERS AND NOVELS, - MUSEUM LECTURE 30 APRIL 2010
4th May 2010
Yesterday the Museum Lecture programme for 2010 continued with Paul Brunyee presenting a talk on Jane Austen and how her work was influenced by three ... >>
NEW EXHIBITION OPENS - 'AFGHANISTAN - THREE CENTURIES OF CONFLICT'
20th April 2010
The 16th of April 2010 was the culmination and opening of our new exhibition on 'Afghanistan Three Centuries of Conflict'. With grateful thanks to Wing ... >>
RESEARCHER SEEKS INFORMATION FROM SOLDIERS WHO SERVED IN NORTHERN IRELAND IN 1972
16th April 2010
Ken Wharton, author of a 'Long Long War; Voices from the British Army in Northern Ireland, 1969-98' and 'Bullets Bombs ... >>
RESEARCH OF VERNON SMITH BRINGS FAMILY CLOSER
6th April 2010
A few months ago we were asked by Mrs Elsa Pyne of Palm Springs, California to carry out research on Private Vernon Smith. Although not ... >>
PROPOSAL FOR BUS STOPS OUTSIDE OF THE MUSEUM TO BE REVIEWED
1st April 2010
Some of you will be aware that the North Yorkshire County Council were proposing to place three bus stops and shelters outside of the museum. ... >>
OBJECT OF THE MONTH: APRIL 2010 THE TWELVE APOSTLES'
1st April 2010
April's object of the month has been researched by Les Etherington (the brother of our usual contributor). Les completed his National Service with the RAF. ... >>
FILM FOOTAGE OF GREEN HOWARDS NOW AVAILABLE ON-LINE
1st April 2010
The Yorkshire Film Archive has selected hundreds of clips which reflect North Yorkshire life, landscape and ... >>
FRIENDS LECTURE - FRIDAY 26TH MARCH - THE GREEN HOWARDS IN NORWAY -1940
23rd March 2010
This Friday Major Roger Chapman will be giving the Friends monthly lecture - The Green Howards in Norwegian Campaign, 1940. The lecture will take place ... >>
LCPL JONES OF C COMPANY 1ST BN GREEN HOWARDS REMEMBERS NIJMEGEN 1955
22nd March 2010
We had a visit from Mr Trevor Jones at the Museum; one time LCpl Jones of C Company 1st Battalion Green Howards. He was one ... >>
OBJECT OF THE MONTH: MARCH 2010 CHAPEL MEMORIALS
2nd March 2010
Following the December article I thought it might interest to readers to have a full list of the memorials in the ... >>
OBJECT OF THE MONTH: FEBRUARY 2010 THE GREEN HOWARDS LINK WITH CANADA
3rd February 2010
The main lighting in the Normanby room is provided by three magnificent brass chandeliers. A Plaque above the main switches informs us ... >>
HITLER’S BUNKER CARPET GOES ON DISPLAY IN RICHMOND
2nd February 2010
The question ‘What was the carpet in Hitler's Berlin Bunker like?' may not have disturbed military historians too much, but if they want the answer, ... >>
EVENING LECTURE PROGRAMME 2010
21st January 2010
The Friends of the Green Howards Museum will be hosting a series of lectures in the Normanby Room. Lectures start at 7pm and cost £3.00 ... >>
OBJECT OF THE MONTH: JANUARY 2010 NORTH RIDING TROPHY
9th January 2010
The North Riding Trophy. >>
OBJECT OF THE MONTH: DECEMBER 2009 THE REGIMENTAL CHAPEL, ST MARY’S PARISH CHURCH RICHMOND
3rd December 2009
Since 1932 the chapel has been the spiritual home of the Green Howards. It has been furnished and nurtured by successive generations of the Regiment ... >>
NEW BOOK PUBLISHED - CAPTAIN G.M.WILSON'S PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF D DAY AND THE LIBERATION OF EUROPE
25th November 2009
We are pleased to announce that the experiences of Captain G. M. Wilson, 7th Battalion have recently been published. >>
GENERAL SIR RICHARD DANNATT - 2009
24th November 2009
It has certainly been a busy year for our fellow Green Howard. Notwithstanding the commitment to his post as Chief of the General Staff he ... >>
100TH ANNIVERSARY OF 2ND BATTALION, THE GREEN HOWARDS COLOURS
21st November 2009
On the 17th November the 2nd Battalion Green Howards Association met to mark the 100th anniversary of the presentation of Colours to the 2nd Battalion, ... >>
RESCUED – SIGNED ORIGINAL DOCUMENT TO RECORD SPECIAL FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN DANISH LIFE REGIMENT AND 1ST BN GREEN HOWARDS
14th November 2009
Thirty five years ago this month, this document was created and signed by Lt Col J B Scott Commanding Officer of 1st Bn and Colonel ... >>
OBJECT OF THE MONTH: NOVEMBER 2009 BRIGADIER “TOMMY” COLLINS C.B.E., J.P., D.L., PSC.
6th November 2009
Peter Etherington has selected a portrait of Brigadier Collins for the November object of the month. >>
MESSAGE FROM THE COMMANDING OFFICER OF 2ND BATTALION THE YORKSHIRE REGIMENT (GREEN HOWARDS) - LIEUTENANT COLONEL DAVID COLTHUP.
4th November 2009
The 2nd Battalion has now been operational in Helmand Province for 6 weeks as the Operational Mentoring and Liaison Battle Group, the same role it ... >>
OBJECT OF THE MONTH: OCTOBER 2009 GAVEL PRESENTED BY GENERAL SIR EDWARD BULFIN
1st October 2009
Peter Etherington has selected a new object of the month for October. On a sideboard in the Normanby Room, directly opposite a portrait of its ... >>
ALMA WEEK AT THE MUSEUM
30th September 2009
ALMA Week at the Museum >>
GREEN HOWARDS VISIT FYNDOUNE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
23rd September 2009
Green Howards visit Fyndoune Community College >>
GREEN HOWARDS MUSEUM CALLS ALL ALMAS TO MARK VICTORY
17th September 2009
Calling all Almas! If your name is Alma the Green Howards Museum in Richmond is offering you free entry all next week (22 to 27 ... >>
OBJECT OF THE MONTH: SEPTEMBER 2009 THE PLUG BAYONET
8th September 2009
Peter Etherington has selected a new object of the month for September. The showcase which describes the formation of the Regiment in 1688, contains among other ... >>
PAUL DANIELS' MEMENTOS GIFTED TO GREEN HOWARDS MUSEUM
6th September 2009
A picture of Paul Daniels performing for troops in Hong Kong has been donated to the Green Howards Regimental Museum, along with a number of ... >>
LEWIS GUNNER'S WWI MEMENTOS COME TO REGIMENTAL MUSEUM
28th August 2009
Mementos of a World War 1 soldier, including a uniform jacket with a rare 'Lewis Gunner' badge, have been presented to the Green Howards Regimental ... >>
ALEX MONEY LEAVES MUSEUM TO JOIN R.A.F.
26th August 2009
On Friday the 21st August volunteers and staff held a leaving lunch for Alex Money, Shop Manager. Alex received a copy of the Green Howards- ... >>
19TH REGIMENT OF FOOT...IN PORTUGAL
24th August 2009
John Sly has recently returned from Portugal where he made an interesting discovery... >>
OBJECT OF THE MONTH: AUGUST 2009 TIBET MEDAL WITH CLASP
18th August 2009
This month's object has been selected by Peter Etherington. Peter served with the Green Howards for 14 years and is a museum guide and volunteer. >>
PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION AVAILABLE ON LINE
27th July 2009
We are delighted to announce that the some of the many thousands of photographs that the museum owns are now available for you to look ... >>
NEW VOLUNTEERS COME TO THE MUSEUM
24th July 2009
Two new volunteers join the Museum >>
CELEBRATION FIGURES FOR AUCTION
24th July 2009
Two Figures from the celebrations of 290 years of the regiment. >>
OBJECT OF THE MONTH: JULY 2009 ENFIELD RIFLE 1855
20th July 2009
This month Tony Pearson, museum guide, selects his favourite object in the museum. >>
WORLD WAR I REMEMBRANCE DATA GOES ON LINE
8th July 2009
Recently the Museum came into the possession of a very large collection of research papers and data relating to men of the Green Howards who ... >>
THE MEDALS OF THE LATE COLONEL HARRY ALEXANDRIA STYLES OBE ARE ENTRUSTED TO THE MUSEUM
3rd July 2009
The Museum was visited this week by Mrs Audrey Styles, the wife of the late Colonel Harry Alexandria Styles OBE along with her daughter Mrs ... >>
DANIELLE RECORDS A BIT OF GREEN HOWARDS HISTORY WHILE ON WORK EXPERIENCE
26th June 2009
Danielle Feetham from Richmond School has been completing her work experience at the museum this week. Danielle is 15 and will be taking her GCSEs ... >>
ARMY MANPOWER LEVELS
24th June 2009
The Army's official response to the Sunday Times article yesterday is as follows >>
OBJECT OF THE MONTH: JUNE 2009 CAPTAIN F.C. AINSLEY'S TRAVEL CASE.
10th June 2009
This is a new feature of the website. Each month a new object will be selected. If you would like to propose your own favourite ... >>
UNVEILING OF BENCH AT ELDON SQUARE, NEWCASTLE
10th June 2009
The cenotaph and surrounding are in Newcastle upon Tyne has recently undergone a major renovation. The cenotaph which has the mounted figure of Saint George ... >>
ONLY D-DAY VC REMEMBERED IN RICHMOND AND IN FRANCE
6th June 2009
The only man to win the Victoria Cross on D-Day, Green Howards Sgt Major Stan Hollis, will be remembered on the 65th anniversary, this Saturday, ... >>
4TH JUNE ROYAL HOSPITAL CHELSEA FOUNDERS DAY
4th June 2009
On a hot summer day in the Royal Hospital Chelsea a gathering of Green Howards took place. Once again invited to the Founders Day Parade ... >>
CORPORAL WILLIAM CLAMP'S DESCENDANT JOINS YORKSHIRE REGIMENT
29th May 2009
This week Kane Clamp visited the museum with his family. It was a very special day for the family as Kane took his ... >>
RYAN GALLOWAY
22nd May 2009
On Tuesday 19th May, Ryan Galloway of Harrogate started his work experience with the museum. >>
RICHMOND SUNDAY 17TH MAY 2009 - MORE PHOTOGRAPHS ADDED
18th May 2009
Almost 300 Green Howard Association members attended Richmond Sunday. Eighteen GHA Branches were represented and fifteen standards were on parade. A contingent of B Company, ... >>
MALAYA VETERANS RETURN TO SEE THEIR MEDALS ON DISPLAY.
17th May 2009
During Richmond Sunday Dickie Bebb and William 'Dixie' Dean together with the family of Joe Newton visited the museum to see their medals on display. ... >>
FRIENDS AGM AND COLONEL GEOFFREY POWELL LECTURE
15th May 2009
Over 70 people attended the Friends AGM and Colonel Geoffrey Powell lecture on Thursday 14th May 2009. >>
RICHMOND SUNDAY 17TH MAY 2009
15th May 2009
Richmond Sunday this year will be held on Sunday 17th May and it is hoped that as many Branches and individual Green Howards as possible ... >>
WEBSITE UPDATED
12th May 2009
Today we are updating the website and we hope you like the new look. The update is based upon user’s feedback and includes pages from ... >>
THE FRIENDS AGM AND ANNUAL LECTURE 14TH MAY 2009
11th May 2009
This year the AGM will be held on Thursday 14th May 2009, 6.30pm at the 4th Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment, Worsley Barracks, Fulford Road, York. ... >>
VISIT FROM ANOTHER FAMOUS GREEN HOWARD
22nd April 2009
It would seem that there are more famous Green Howards than we first thought. This week we had a visit from ex-Sgt Charlie ‘Spuggy’ Wardell ... >>
LOCAL FIREMEN HELP PROMOTE MUSEUM
16th April 2009
We are very grateful to our local fire station who put up our new banner outside the museum. We hope the new banner will raise ... >>
ANOTHER FAMOUS EX-GREEN HOWARD - DEREK BENFIELD
14th April 2009
Derek Benfield born in Bradford 11 March 1926 - Died 10 March 2009. >>
LAUNCH OF GREEN HOWARDS DVD
7th April 2009
At the recent preview night at the museum Paul Frost, producer and director of the new DVD the 'Green Howards' presented Field Marshal the Lord ... >>
NEW TEMPORARY EXHIBITION FROM FRONT LINE TO FAME OPENS AT MUSEUM
6th April 2009
This Temporary Exhibition tells the story of nineteen Green Howard personalities who achieved fame and recognition before, during and after their service with the Regiment. ... >>
PREVIEW NIGHT AT THE GREEN HOWARDS MUSEUM - FIELD MARSHAL THE LORD INGE KG GCB PC DL OPENS EXHIBITION
6th April 2009
On the evening of the 6th April Field Marshal The Lord Inge KG GCB PC DL opened our new temporary exhibition 'From Front Line to ... >>
BOOK LAUNCH FOR A BREED APART
6th April 2009
Preview night at the museum on the 6th April was a triple celebration with the opening of the temporary exhibition, the book launch for A ... >>
RIDLEY BROTHER'S MEDALS REUNITED AT GREEN HOWARDS MUSEUM
2nd March 2009
This week Major Charles Ridley’s medals were donated by his son and daughter. Major Ridley was the brother of Colonel T.K.G. Ridley whose medals are ... >>
4 YORKS OFFICERS ENJOY DRINKS IN THE NORMANBY ROOM
28th February 2009
The museum was delighted to host pre-dinner drinks for the CO Lieutenant Colonel DK Rhodes and officers of 4 Yorks who were in Catterick for ... >>
MEDALS FROM ‘DOWN UNDER’ MAKE IT HOME TO RICHMOND
26th February 2009
Last week a group of medals belonging to Sgt Maj Norman Stoker were donated by his daughter Ada Stoker. For many years they have been ... >>
50 GURKHAS HELP BOOST VISITOR NUMBERS TO RECORD HIGH FOR GREEN HOWARDS MUSEUM.
25th February 2009
The museum has enjoyed bumper visitor numbers during its first month of 2009. In February we had 450 visitors compared with 216 last year. Among ... >>
NEW DVD COMES TO THE MUSEUM
18th February 2009
The new DVD created by Paul Frost, charting the history of the regiment is now on sale in the museum gift shop. Priced at £12.99, ... >>
NEW CURATOR TAKES UP POST
11th February 2009
Miss Lynda Powell took up her new post as curator at the museum in January 2009. She came to us from Richmond District Council where ... >>
EX-GREEN HOWARD IMMORTALISED IN CANADIAN TEN DOLLAR BILL
17th December 2008
THE VETERAN ON OUR TEN DOLLAR BILL >>
'ACCOUNT BOOK OF PTE PETER DALY 19TH FOOT'
1st December 2008
ACCOUNT BOOK OF PRIVATE PETER DALY OF THE 19TH FOOT >>
MUSEUM LIVE ON TELEVISION FOR ARMISTICE DAY
12th November 2008
Tyne Tees Television's 'North East Tonight' was live from the Green Howards Museum on Armistice Day, 11th November. Presenter Pam Royle used several locations ... >>
MUSEUM HELPS BBC BRING WWI HERO’S STORY TO LIGHT
10th November 2008
The story of a World War I Soldier who served with the Green Howards in France is being told by BBC Tees to mark Remembrance ... >>
MEDALS BEQUEST TO MUSEUM
30th October 2008
The Museum has recently received the medals of Major Peter John Howell who sadly passed away in September this year. He had a distinguished ... >>
GOODBYE TO SARAH
30th September 2008
Sadly we say good bye to Sarah Taylor. Sarah has worked at the museum for the past three years as Collections and Audience Development ... >>
1904 COMMISSION PRESENTED TO THE MUSEUM
29th July 2008
A framed Commission, three watercolours and fragments from a Green Howards Regimental Colour have been donated to the Green Howards Museum. >>
STUDENTS GO BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE GREEN HOWARDS MUSEUM
12th July 2008
Two students from Bedale High School’s Year 10 have been finding out about the area’s military history as part of their work experience at the ... >>
AFTER 99 YEARS FAMILY SEES REGIMENTAL COLOURS GUARDED BY GREAT-GRANDFATHER
30th June 2008
When Frank Hopkins and his family visited the Green Howards Regimental Museum in Richmond they were reunited with the colours of the Regiment's 2nd Battalion ... >>
STORY OF RESCUE BY ELEPHANT UNCOVERED IN GREEN HOWARDS GIFT
30th June 2008
Papers and objects associated with a remarkable but little-known episode of World War II that included the rescue of refugees with the help of elephants ... >>
MUSEUM EXHIBITION TELLS THE STORY OF RICHMOND'S BARRACKS
20th April 2008
Generations of Green Howards soldiers who trained at the former Barracks on Gallowgate in Richmond between 1877 and 1961 are remembered in a new exhibition ... >>
20-YEAR-OLD ALEX IS MUSEUM'S NEW SHOP MANAGER
28th March 2008
The Green Howards Regimental Museum in Richmond has a new Shop Manager - and he's not yet 21. >>
NAPOLEONIC SNUFF BOX - THE CASE REOPENED
13th March 2008
The Green Howards Museum’s snuff box has been re-examined by an academic from Huddersfield University. >>
TA100 - A NEW EXHIBITION AT THE GREEN HOWARDS MUSEUM
13th March 2008
TA100 is a new exhibition at the Green Howards Museum to mark the 100th anniversary of the Territorial Army. The exhibition explores the development of ... >>
THE OPENING OF THE REFURBISHED GREEN HOWARDS MUSEUM
19th May 2007
Over 70 members of the Green Howards Association, VIPs and guests attended the opening of the new ground floor of the Museum on the evening ... >>
DRAMATIC OPENING OF REFURBISHED GREEN HOWARDS MUSEUM
18th May 2007
An army Land Rover bursts through the wall of The Green Howards Regimental Museum in Richmond as a dramatic introduction to its newly-refurbished entrance area, ... >>
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