The coach will be displayed in the former Military Vehicle Museum which the Shepherd family bought from the council and is currently being renovated.

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The royal couple later visited the Cheshire Military Museum and experienced life in a trench which formed part of an exhibition about World War I.

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After her mother's death she continued her search through the military commissariat, and the local museum.

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Call it downsizing, deaccessioning (museum lingo), or decommissioning (the military term).

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The tower has previously housed a museum and been used as a military outpost.

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Outside the museum sits the twisted remains of a downed helicopter in which notoriously brutal military commander Lt Col Domingo Monterrosa died after being lured into an explosive trap by Venceremos activists using a rigged transmitter.

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Montrose airbase, which now houses the museum, tells the story of how the Angus town became a part of military history.

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Huts 11 and 11A at the Buckinghamshire museum were the first to house the large electro-mechanical Bombe devices, which decrypted German military messages during World War II.

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