Compass, owned by Maj E K Ridley, Dorset Regiment, 1898 (c).

Made of brass and is blued against reflection; with a hinged lid and sighting line and glazed with an axial line; inside the lid is a white paper arrow, luminous in the dark for sighting; a label bearing instructions for use is fixed to the lid; the disc inside is free revolving and can be fixed into place by two brass knobs; leather case is lined with crimson and has a pocket on the front and a coiled and metallic ribbon, possibly aluminium for night time illumination; case is inscribed in ink, ‘E K R’.

Associated with the Boer War.