The museum has a wide range of material which will assist with any research into the history of XX The Lancashire Fusiliers, and has limited resources for tracing people who served with other regiments in the army.
The archives include :
All medal rolls from 1799-1902 (Campaigns).
Records of honours and awards from 1799-present day with citations for awards for the 1st and 2nd World War. This includes the 19 Victoria Crosses won by the Regiment.
We hold details of 9,500 men who enlisted between 1881-1902, who were in the two regular battalions (1st and 2nd).
Casualty lists for the: Crimean war, Indian Mutiny, Sudanese war, Boer war, World War I, and World War II including burial sites for the World War I and II.
All soldiers killed in action (from any regiment.)
All campaigns and burial sites of all World War I and World War II soldiers of the Regiment.
Edited World War I war diaries. Regimental Journals dating from 1891 to the present day.
The movements and actions of the Regiment during World War I can be traced.
Liaison with all other North West military museums.
For Army Records please contact:
The National Archive, Ruskin Avenue, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU.
For records of service men before the 1920 use the following link:
National archives/military history
For records of service men after 1920 please contact:
Army Personnel Centre, Disclosures 4 (Historical), MP 400, Kentigern House, 65 Brown Street, Glasgow G2 8EX
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Tel 0845 6009663
Enquiry Form.
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At present the museum makes a research charge of £25.