Wardown Park Museum, Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment Association Museum Collection — Image credit: Shaun Wallin (source: Flickr)

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The Wardown Park Museum houses the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (formerly 16th Foot or Bedfordshire Regiment) gallery which explores the history of the Regiment from its inception in 1688 through to the amalgamation with the Essex Regiment in 1958 to form the East Anglian Regiment (Royal Anglian regiment from 1964). Displays featured include recruitment, the early years of the Regiment, the Boer War, First World War, Second World War, service in India and the Far East and National Service, medals, and an interactive oral history display.

Address and contact

Old Bedford Road, Luton, Bedfordshire LU2 7HA England

museum.gallery@lutonculture.com

01582 546722

The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment Museum occupies a gallery at Wardown Park Museum, Luton. It has the same opening hours as Wardown Park Museum. Former serving members of the Regiment are available on most Wednesday mornings to talk to visitors and answer questions.

http://www.lutonculture.com/wardown-house

Lieutenant Colonel Sir David Ximenes (1777–1848) H. Ximenes

Wardown Park Museum, Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment Association Museum Collection
Major James Brand (c.1790–1853) unknown artist

Wardown Park Museum, Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment Association Museum Collection
Lieutenant G. J. Peacock, Lieutenant Colonel of the Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment (1859–1870) unknown artist

Wardown Park Museum, Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment Association Museum Collection
The Unveiling of the Second Obelisk at Kempston Regimental War Memorial unknown artist

Wardown Park Museum, Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment Association Museum Collection
Lieutenant Charkham's Platoon of 'D' Company, 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment amongst the Rubble of the Blown Escanaffles Railway Bridge at Avelghen during the Withdrawal to Dunkirk Thomas Sherwood La Fontaine (1915–2007)

Wardown Park Museum, Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment Association Museum Collection
Portrait of an Officer in a Red Tunic with a Sash unknown artist

Wardown Park Museum, Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment Association Museum Collection
The Crossing of the Indaw Chaung, Burma, 1944 Terence Tenison Cuneo (1907–1996)

Wardown Park Museum, Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment Association Museum Collection
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