Medals among museum’s ‘most significant’ donations

A highly decorated war hero, Brigadier Reginald Miles' medals have been donated to the National Army Museum.

Strong support for medal proposal

Around 100 former compulsory military trainees and national servicemen gathered together on August 3 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the compulsory-military-training referendum.

Life’s still wild about Harry

Back in the mid-1930s, a teenage Harry Spencer joined the Mounted Rifles - ‘not to be a brave soldier, but to be presented with a rifle so that we could do deer stalking and pig hunting’.