NAM.2002-05-11-1

PROVISIONAL BATTALION ALDERSHOT. Colour photolithographic Christmas card, 1935 (c). Manufacturer unknown. Embossed with a crown above the letters ‘VRI’, the whole surmounting a blue scroll. Part of a collection of regimental crests and other cards which originally belonged to Capt Ian Bruce Deas Dewar who was killed in 1938. At the time of his death he was serving with 2nd Bn 17th Dogra Regiment and attached to the South Waziristan Scouts as Wing Commander.