Museum Gallery

Museum GalleriesThe museum tells the story of 'Sustaining' the British Army in peace and war from the Battle of Crecy through to the present day. The display consists of a single large gallery with a circular layout, all at ground level with full wheelchair access. The visitor enters through met 'RLC Today' a display relating to current and recent operations of the Royal Logistic Corps in Afghanistan and Iraq. They are then taken on a journey into history: From army logistics in its infancy in the fourteenth century to the early predecessors of the Royal Logistic Corps in the late nineteenth century and then the evolution through various conflicts over the centuries to the modern day.
 
Notable exhibits include artillery pieces and a horse-drawn field oven from the nineteenth century, field stoves from the twentieth century, a Russian built maxim machine-gun, and of course the 1939 Rolls Royce Silver Wraith used by Field Marshall Montgomery from 1944 to 1964. It was the first 'civilian' vehicle to land in the Allies' French beachhead on Juno Beach on 9 June 1944, only three days after the commencement of the Normandy landings. In 1964, Montgomery personally presented it to the Royal Army Service Corps Museum at Aldershot. 'Monty's Rolls Royce still runs and is used frequently for various engagements.

Other features of the gallery include various models and dioramas, from a representation of the defence of Rorke's Drift in 1879 to a scale model of a 1944 tank landing craft, a 'hands on' display of military uniforms from various periods for visitors to try on, and various audio-visual and interactive exhibits.