The Royal Canadian Regiment Museum The Royal Canadian Regiment Museum is a military museum located at Wolseley Barracks ( the former CFB London ) in London , Ontario , Canada , the historic home of the The Royal Canadian Regiment ( RCR ) . History . Although original architectural drawings of Wolseley Hall drafted in 1886 show space allocated to a museum , the museum in its current form was officially opened in 1983 during the royal visit of H . R . H . Prince Philip , Duke of Edinburgh . It is dedicated to the exploits of The Royal Canadian Regiment . Artifacts displayed in the museum cover the regiment ' s activities from the Yukon Gold Rush to their current work in Afghanistan . The museum preserves Regimental history and serves as a training medium to teach Regimental history through the collection of documents , pictures , books , military artifacts , etc . It provides research facilities for the study of Canadian military history dating from 1833 in so far as it affects The Royal Canadian Regiment . The museum displays and illustrates in an appropriate manner the dress , weapons , and customs of the Regiment ’ s military heritage including the history of The London and Oxford Fusiliers ( The Canadian Fusiliers ( City of London Regiment ) , and The Oxford Rifles – of Woodstock , Ontario ) . The museum serves as a place of military interest for the public and Canadian Forces personnel . Collection . Among the regimentally significant items on display is a scarf which is an exact replica of one hand knit by Queen Victoria during the Second Boer War ( one of eight that she made ) . The original scarf presented to Private Richard Thompson of The RCR is on display in the Canadian War Museum . Four such scarves were presented to soldiers of the British Army , and four to soldiers of colonial forces ( Canada , Australia , New Zealand and South Africa ) . Other items of interest are a wooden cross from Flanders Fields , a recreation of a World War I trench and a street scene from the Italian Campaign . Outside the museum is a display of artillery and military vehicles , including a Universal Carrier , a 25 pounder and a Lynx reconnaissance vehicle . One of the early highlights of the museum ' s collection was the Victoria Cross of Milton Fowler Gregg which was donated in 1979 , but was stolen the following year and never recovered . It is currently on an Interpol watch list for stolen items and cannot legally be sold . The museum also holds the medal s of General Charles Foulkes , the man who , along with General Johannes Blaskowitz , signed the German capitulation agreement at the Hotel de Wereld in Wageningen ( Netherlands ) on May 6 , 1945 , effectively ending World War II in Europe . Capital campaign . In 2007 , The RCR Museum launched a Capital Campaign with the objective of raising $ 2 . 3 Million ( Cdn ) to expand the museum and upgrade infrastructure facilities installed in the 1983 reconstruction . The Honorary Chairman of the Capital Campaign is veteran Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent who served in The Royal Canadian Regiment for four years in the early 1950s . The Capital Campaign received its first major government donation on 12 May 2007 when Member of Provincial Parliament ( MPP ) Deb Matthews , on behalf of the province of Ontario , presented a cheque for $ 240 , 000 ( Cdn ) . On 21 February 2008 , the City of London , Ontario confirmed in their annual budget a contribution of $ 200 , 000 to The RCR Museum Capital Campaign . Recently , the RCR Museum hired a new curator who holds a doctoral degree in Art History . Affiliations . The museum is affiliated with : CMA , CHIN , OMMC and Virtual Museum of Canada .