Royal Engineers Museum

The Royal Engineers Museum, Library and Archive is a military engineering museum and library in Gillingham, Kent.

[2] It was classed as Grade II listed on 5 December 1996.

It is one of only three military or regimental museums in the country to hold this status.

[3] The museum and library hold over 500,000 objects relating to the history of the Corps of Royal Engineers and the development of military engineering.

[4] Other items include a German V-2 rocket used during the Second World War,[5] the map used by the Duke of Wellington during the Battle of Waterloo, a finial from the Mahdi's tomb,[6] weapons used by Lieutenant John Chard during the Anglo-Zulu War, a collection of bridge-laying tanks, a Brennan torpedo and a Harrier jump jet.