THE Duke of York is to visit the Royal Engineers Museum in Prince Arthur Road, Gillingham, later this month.

Among the exhibits he will see will be several relating to the Falklands Campaign in which he took part.

They include the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal posthumously awarded to Staff Sgt James Prescott who was killed when HMS Antelope blew up as he was trying to defuse a delayed action bomb. Prince Andrew will also see a Harrier jump jet launch pad built during the conflict by Royal Engineers.

The museum also houses mementoes of the Rorke's Drift battle, souvenirs collected by Gordon of Khartoum and Lord Kitchener, examples of early flying experiments carried out at Lidsing in the 1880s by the Royal Engineers, and some of the inventions by Britain's helicopter inventor, Louis Brennan, of Gillingham.