The Onslow Room - Case 4
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the King's Shilling, The Carlisle Figures, The Surrey Connection.
Recruiting posters and pictures, Freedom Scrolls, photos of the
depots, and a display of model soldiers with a backdrop of Stoughton
Barracks. |
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The
Carlisle Figures. These two life-sized figures
depict Grenadiers of The Queen's Royal Regiment. It is thought
that they were made about 1715 when part of the Regiment
was quartered in Carlisle. It was customary at the time
for figures such as these to be displayed outside Inns to
advertise the presence of a recruiting party. For many years
they were to be seen at the Bush Hotel and then the County
Hotel in Carlisle before being restored and generously presented
to the Regiment in 1938 by Colonel R G Clarke CMG DSO who
commanded the 1st Battalion from 1925-28. (Read
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