The Keep Military Museum, Dorchester

I took some holiday last week and found myself in Dorchester where I spent an enjoyable couple of hours in the Keep Military Museum.  Whilst the museum has been partly seduced by the modern methods of presentation, it is pleasing to see that traditional presentation has not been abandoned either.  Some of the exhibits which took my attention were a 25 pdr, a map plotting all the bombs, by device, dropped in Dorset during WW2, and a magnificent diorama of the battle of Plassey.  And do you know where the last British mounted charge took place?  Well if you have been on our War in the Desert tour to Egypt, the chances are that you drove right past the site en-route to Sidi Barrani.  On 26 February 1916, three squadrons of the Dorset Yeomanry and one of the Bucks Yeomanry charged a Turkish rearguard (armed with Maxim machine guns).  At a cost of only 32 killed and 26 wounded, they inflicted nearly a thousand casualties and captured the enemy general. Find out more about the battle of Agagia at http://www.keepmilitarymuseum.org/middleeast/outline.php? . Better still, why not visit this superb museum. I think that future tours to Egypt might incorporate an additional stop, once we have figured out exactly where the battle took place.