NAM.1956-02-870-1

Two handled cup, 1909-1941. Silver, maker's mark 'E S B', hallmarked Sheffield, 1909-1910. A sports trophy. Cup is slender form with the base of the urn fluted. The lid has a reeded edge, with fluting rising to an onion shaped finial. On a reeded flute. On a blackwood, circular, plain plinth, with a silver collar inscribed with the names of the winning teams, 1913-1930. Around the base are nine silver plaques inscribed with winners, 1932-1941. The Hodson Index of Indian Army personnel records an Arthur Henry Maitland Wilson joining the Indian Army as a 2nd Lieutenant on 13 March 1906. Sadly, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission records the death of Captain A H M Wilson of the 12th Indian Cavalry, aged 33, in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) on 29 January 1918. Associated with the Bombay Light Horse and the 12th Cavalry.

World War One, Mesopotamia (1914-1918)