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The Fusilier Museum was originally housed in the Wellington Barracks on Bolton Road. In 2009, the museum moved into the former Bury Arts and Crafts Centre building on Broad Street, which had closed in December 2004 after 110 years on the site. [1] The new museum was officially opened by the Duke of Kent on 25 September 2009. [2]
The Lancashire Fusiliers War Memorial, now situated in Gallipoli Gardens, outside the Fusilier Museum, in Bury, Greater Manchester (formerly in Lancashire), England. Date 27 November 2017, 11:39:55
The barracks were completed as part of the response to the Chartist riots in 1845. [1] In 1873 a system of recruiting areas based on counties was instituted under the Cardwell Reforms and the barracks became the depot for the two battalions of the 20th (East Devonshire) Regiment with the Bury-based 7th Royal Lancashire Militia (Rifles). [2]
The Lancashire Fusiliers War Memorial, now situated in Gallipoli Gardens, outside the Fusilier Museum, in Bury, Greater Manchester (formerly in Lancashire), England. Date 27 November 2017, 11:41:35
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The Lancashire Fusiliers War Memorial is a First World War memorial dedicated to members of the Lancashire Fusiliers killed in that conflict. Outside the Fusilier Museum in Bury, Greater Manchester, England, it was unveiled in 1922—on the seventh anniversary of the landing at Cape Helles, part of the Gallipoli Campaign in which the regiment suffered particularly heavy casualties.
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The trustees of the museum joined forces with Warwickshire County Council to acquire St John's House in 1961. The Council opened their museum of the ground floor and the trustees of the regimental museum occupied the first floor. Both museums were opened by Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery on 2 August 1961. [1]