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Royal Canadian Regiment MuseumRoyal Canadian Regiment Museum is a museum in London, Ontario Canada. It was officially opened in 1977 during the royal visit of H.R.H. Prince Phillip Duke of Edinburgh. It is dedicated to the exploits of the Royal Canadian Regiment. Artifacts displayed in the museum go from the Yukon Gold Rush to their current work in United Nation Peacekeeping and Afghanistan. The archive includes many items donated by people in the London area including diaries going back to the Napoleonic era. They have a scarf on display which was hand knitted by Queen Victoria during the Boer War( one of 10 that she made, and the only one on display in North America). This scarf is the predecessor to the Victoria Cross. Outside the museum is a display of artillery, some going back to the Bohr War. Other items of interest are a wooded cross from Flanders Fields and a recreation of a World War I trench and a street from the Italian Campaign. One of the early highlights of their collection was the Victoria Cross of Milton Fowler Gregg which was donated in 1979, but was stolen the following year and never recovered. It is believed that this will eventually be recovered as it is currently on an Interpol watch list for stolen items and cannot legally be sold. External Links http://www.rcrmuseum.ca/html/museum/index.html
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