Adjutant General's Corps Museum

The Adjutant General’s Corps Museum sits in Peninsula Barracks, a former military base in Winchester. It traces the history of the Adjutant General’s Corps and its predecessors through uniforms, documents, photographs and lifelike dioramas. The displays begin in the 18th century and continue up to the creation of the corps in 1992. Artefacts come from the Royal Army Pay Corps, the Royal Army Educational Corps and the Women’s Royal Army Corps. Items from the Army Legal Corps and the Military Provost Staff Corps are also shown. The museum brings together material once kept at several sites across southern England. The Royal Army Pay Corps collection had been at Worthy Down Camp, while the Royal Army Educational Corps material came from Eltham Palace. Elements from the Women’s Royal Army Corps were previously housed at Queen Elizabeth Barracks in Guildford. A large part of the Royal Military Police archive remains at its own museum in Southwick Park. Visitors move through rooms arranged in chronological order. Early displays show 18th-century paperwork and uniforms. Later sections cover the two world wars with photographs and equipment. The final galleries bring the story up to the 1990s and the formation of today’s corps. The dioramas recreate scenes from barracks, offices and field postings. Outside, the barracks buildings themselves recall centuries of military life in Winchester.