Collection: Highlanders Museum

Ammunition Pouch x 3. German equipment

Piece of Adolf Hitler's desk. Removed from the Bunker beneath the Chancellery in Berlin by Lt Col Richard Broad MC, Seaforth Highlanders. The desk had been broken in pieces by Russian solders in May 1945.

Biscuit Box with biscuits sealed inside. Part of the Highlander’s Museum collection (Queen’s Own Highlanders Collection).

Steel helmet worn by Captain Rev F J L MacLachlan MC, Chaplain to the 1st Bn Cameron Highlanders, during the crossing of the Irrawaddy River on 19/20 March 1945. This river crossing marked a major point in the re-conquest of Burma, following the…

Side Drum - made for use by the Pipe Band formed by Prisoners of War. It bears the badge of the Seaforth Highlanders. Part of the Highlander’s Mueum collection (Queen’s Own Highlanders Collection).

Jersey made from scaps of wool by 2 Lt TD Scott, 4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders while a Prisoner of War.

Rifle heavily encrusted in marine silt. Photographed in situ in custom display box.

Despatch box used by Adolf Hitler. Removed from the Bunker beneath the Chancellery in Berlin by Lieutenant Colonel I F Anderson OBE MC, Seaforth Highlanders in May 1945. Part of the Highlander’s Museum collection (Queen’s Own Highlanders Collection).

German 'Schu' Mine used in the Italian campaign of 1944, captured by the 6th Bn Seaforth Highlanders. These small anti-personnel mines were particularly dangerous as their wooden casing made them impossible to detect using a magnetic min detector.…