Online Talk and Live Q&A with Major General (Retd) David Shouesmith Now Chairman of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Trust, David Shouesmith's 28-year military career included service as ACDS (Logistic Operations) in the UK MoD and logistic command on operations from squadron to brigade level, from Bosnia to Afghanistan. In this online talk and live Q&A […]

Visitors to the museum have long been able to sit inside a replica section of D-Day Horsa Glider and learn about Pegasus Bridge and some of the first troops to land in France on 6 June 1944, and still can today. Now, we’re digging deeper into the county’s D-Day story, with a special commemorative exhibition […]

Join us for a talk at the museum with Lt. Colonel (Retired) Ingram Murray, father of comedian and historian Al Murray. Proceeds from ticket sales of this event directly support both ABF: The Soldiers Charity and Soldiers of Oxfordshire Trust. Landing in the six gliders with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry early in the […]

Book now for dinner and a show at the incredible Blenheim Palace. To celebrate Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum's 10th Anniversary, Lucy Fleming and her husband, Simon Williams, will be performing “Posting Letters to the Moon”, their show bringing to life the story of the wartime letters between her parents, Celia Johnson (“Brief Encounter”) and Peter […]