British Army Records

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British Army Records
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• The Army Museums Ogilby Trust is a registered
  charity founded in 1954 by the late Colonel
  Robert Ogilby DSO, DL whose personal experiences
  in two world wars persuaded him that the fighting
  spirit of the British soldier stemmed from the
  esprit de corps engendered by the Armys
  regimental structure. This spirit is enshrined in
  the many regimental and corps museums which seek
  to inspire and educate their visitors.
• The Trust has played, and continues to play, a
  very significant part in the establishment and
  development of some 136 such museums in the
  United Kingdom today. They are as varied and
  individual as the regiments they represent. A
  visit to any of them will produce evidence of the
  Trust's activities objects purchased with the
  assistance of a grant-in-aid endowments to
  support their establishment or development and
  improvements to the preservation, conservation,
  display and recording of objects and archive
  material achieved through professional advice
  funded by the Trust. Most museums are now
  charitable trusts themselves and the legal costs
  associated with establishing them were, in most
  cases, borne by the Trust.

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• The Trust has contributed to professional
  military, museum and heritage journals and has
  sponsored or supported the publication of a
  number of works of reference. More recently it
  has created and now maintains a website,
  www.armymuseums.org.uk, which is recognised as
  the definitive guide to regimental and corps
  museums. The site carries advice on tracing army
  ancestors and includes a 4,000 volume regimental
  bibliography. The Trust also responds to
  inquiries from the general public. Its latest
  project was the production of The AMOT Guide to
  Military Museums a glove box guide to all the
  regimental and corps museums listed on the
  website as well as prestigious national museums
  with collections of military significance.

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• Army museums are in most cases now well
  established and integrated into the national
  museums sector. Their collections provide
  valuable insights into the great events of our
  military history but they also illustrate the
  close links that have existed and continue to
  flourish between regiments and their local
  communities. The care and management of such
  collections is a heavy responsibility which
  demands specialist knowledge, professional
  training and funding. AMOT assists the in all
  these areas. Visit our website for more
  information about British Army Records.