The Royal Highland Fusiliers Museum

12/06/2026

In our growing endeavor to create more accessibility to those that support our museum, we have created this simply interaction as a way for people to engage with an object from our collection and to learn in a slightly different way about it. Please provide us feedback if this is something you would like more of or which objects you might want us to scan next.

Supported devices: iPhone 6S+ & iPad 5+ on iOS 12+ and Android 8.0+ with ARCore 1.9 support Open this page with such a device to experience AR.

05/06/2026

17/05/2026

We would like to thank the Donnini Family for the honor of safe guarding Fusilier Dennis Donnini's Victoria Cross, so that others may be inspired by the stories of his bravery and sacrifice.

Come to the Royal Highland Fusiliers Museum to learn more about this remarkable young man, and the many other stories of our regiment.

01/05/2026

During the Great War (World War I) the silk postcard typically manufactured in France was popular with service members. These brief messages to a loved one back home or away in the war were made possible by several Postal reforms made during the Crimea War which allowed the British public to send mail for a penny.

This penny post spurred an increase in the literate rate of the common soldier. The desire to stay connected with family spread across the empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, coupled with the the postal reforms made in the mid-nineteenth century created an "army of writers" which has provide cultural institutions rare limps into the lives of ordinary people.

24/04/2026

This Great War Jacket is a great example of innovations in military thought. With unique unit identification systems stitched onto their, uniforms command and control over the battlefield was increased... in theory. Unfortunately like all good ideas, battle is the ultimate test of these practices and this one quickly showed that warfare in the early twentieth century wasn't ready for this.