Military history events in Wiltshire and the surrounding areas
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| Date(s) | Event (host, venue) |
|---|---|
| 07 Oct 2025 to 29 Aug 2026 | From Front Lines to Finish Lines – the RLC and its predecessors at the Olympic Games (Royal Logistic Corps Museum, Worthy Down) |
| 02 Mar to 02 May | Forged in Steel: Skill, Symbolism, and the Soldier’s Blade (The Gurkha Museum, Winchester) |
| 04 Mar to 28 Mar | A Woman and A Rifleman: A History of Women and the Regiment (The Rifleman’s Museum, Winchester) |
| 06 Mar | An Evening with Al Murray: A Passion for History (Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock) |
| 09 Mar | On the Roof: Iranian Embassy Siege Remembered (Army Flying Museum, Middle Wallop) |
| 10 Mar | RAF Aerobatic Teams (Boscombe Down Aviation Collection, Old Sarum) |
| 12 Mar | The English Civil War (Royal Logistic Corps Museum, Worthy Down) |
| 13 Mar | Mitchell – Father of the Spitfire (Goodworth Clatford Village Club, Andover) |
| 21 Mar | The Battle of Singapore (Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock) |
| 23 Mar | Proteus, a Rotary Wing Uncrewed Air System Technology Demonstration programme (Army Flying Museum, Middle Wallop) |
| 25 Mar | Enemy Sighted (Army Flying Museum, Middle Wallop) |
| 25 Mar | ‘The War on the Wire’ – Signalling in the Gallipoli Campaign (Salisbury Military History Society) |
| 25 Mar | Napoleon: Soldier and Lover (email jameskrporter@aol.com for further details) (Wessex Military History Group, Online: Zoom) |
| 26 Mar | Keeping the Buccaneers Flying: Life on HMS Ark Royal’s flight deck (email jameskrporter@aol.com for further details) (Wessex Military History Group, Army Reserve Centre, Dorchester) |
| 01 Apr | Female Tommies: The Auxiliary Territorial Service in the Second World War (The Rifles (Berkshire & Wiltshire) Museum, Salisbury) |
| 12 Apr | German Tanks at Villers Bretoneux…and more (Western Front Association, Highworth) |
| 14 Apr | The Extraordinary Life of Air Cdre E. L. Howard-Williams (Boscombe Down Aviation Collection, Old Sarum) |
| 16 Apr | Hampshire’s Part-Time Soldiers (Royal Logistic Corps Museum, Worthy Down) |
| 18 Apr | Aero Jumble ’26 (Boscombe Down Aviation Collection, Old Sarum) |
| 18 Apr | What Do We Still Forget About The ‘Forgotten War’? (Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock) |
| 22 Apr | Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain (Salisbury Military History Society) |
| 23 Apr | The Rise and Fall of the British Army: 1975 to 2025 (The Rifleman’s Museum, Winchester) |
| 30 Apr | Field Marshal Lord Roberts (email jameskrporter@aol.com for further details) (Wessex Military History Group, Army Reserve Centre, Dorchester) |
| 01 May | The Battle of The Ruhr 1943 (email jameskrporter@aol.com for further details) (Wessex Military History Group, Online: Zoom) |
| 06 May | Testing Fast Jets: Aden to Tornado (The Rifles (Berkshire & Wiltshire) Museum, Salisbury) |
| 07 May | August 1914 – Follow a Supply Column and others through mobilisation and the total chaos of the opening weeks of the Great War (Western Front Association, Highworth) |
| 07 May | Rise & Fall of the British Army (Royal Logistic Corps Museum, Worthy Down) |
| 09/10 May | Wartime Britain 2026 (REME Museum, Lyneham) |
| 13 May | Waterbird (Boscombe Down Aviation Collection, Old Sarum) |
| 27 May | Pavlov’s House: Myth, Memory, and the Battle for Stalingrad (Salisbury Military History Society) |
| 27 May | Operation BAGRATION 1944 (email jameskrporter@aol.com for further details) (Wessex Military History Group, Online: Zoom) |
| 28 May | The U-Boat War 1939-1945 (email jameskrporter@aol.com for further details) (Wessex Military History Group, Army Reserve Centre, Dorchester) |
| 09 Jun | Aerial Surveillance Part 2 (Boscombe Down Aviation Collection, Old Sarum) |
| 13 Jun | The Rise & Fall of the British Army 1975–2025 (Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock) |
| 24 Jun | MI9 – The Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in WWII (Salisbury Military History Society) |
| 24 Jun | Bloody Albuhera (email jameskrporter@aol.com for further details) (Wessex Military History Group, Online: Zoom) |
| 25 Jun | First Clash of the Ironclads (email jameskrporter@aol.com for further details) (Wessex Military History Group, Army Reserve Centre, Dorchester) |
| 27 Jun | REME Museum Extravaganza 2026 (REME Museum, Lyneham) |
| 11 Jul | Wallop Wheels & Wings (Army Flying Museum, Middle Wallop) |
| 14 Jul | Pegasus Bridge using words of Glider Pilots (Boscombe Down Aviation Collection, Old Sarum) |
| 29 Jul | The Battle of Gettysburg 1863 (email jameskrporter@aol.com for further details) (Wessex Military History Group, Online: Zoom) |
| 30 Jul | The Work of the MOD War Detectives (Royal Logistic Corps Museum, Worthy Down) |
| 30 Jul | Napoleon: Soldier and Lover (email jameskrporter@aol.com for further details) (Wessex Military History Group, Army Reserve Centre, Dorchester) |
| 14-16 Aug | White Horse Military Show (White Horse Military Show, South Wraxall, Melksham) |
| 26 Aug | Anzio (email jameskrporter@aol.com for further details) (Wessex Military History Group, Online: Zoom) |
| 27 Aug | The Black Prince (email jameskrporter@aol.com for further details) (Wessex Military History Group, Army Reserve Centre, Dorchester) |
| 08 Sep | Navy Aerobatic Teams (Boscombe Down Aviation Collection, Old Sarum) |
| 12/13 Sep | Hampshire Air Festival (Thruxton Aerodrome) |
| 18 Sep | Borneo – The secret war (The Gurkha Museum, Winchester) |
| 30 Sep | The Exercise TIGER Disaster 1944 (email jameskrporter@aol.com for further details) (Wessex Military History Group, Online: Zoom) |
| 01 Oct | The Battles of Narvik Apr/Jun 1940 (email jameskrporter@aol.com for further details) (Wessex Military History Group, Army Reserve Centre, Dorchester) |
| 27 Oct | Army Aerobatic Teams (Boscombe Down Aviation Collection, Old Sarum) |
| 28 Oct | Stalingrad (Salisbury Military History Society) |
| 28 Oct | The Loss of English France (email jameskrporter@aol.com for further details) (Wessex Military History Group, Online: Zoom) |
| 29 Oct | The British Army in Italy in WW1 (email jameskrporter@aol.com for further details) (Wessex Military History Group, Army Reserve Centre, Dorchester) |
| 10 Nov | Three Quarters of the Circle (Boscombe Down Aviation Collection, Old Sarum) |
| 25 Nov | The Battle of Cape Matapan, 1941 (email jameskrporter@aol.com for further details) (Wessex Military History Group, Online: Zoom) |
| 26 Nov | The Battle of the Ruhr 1943 (email jameskrporter@aol.com for further details) (Wessex Military History Group, Army Reserve Centre, Dorchester) |
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