NAM.1980-04-9-1

Sampler embroidered with the badge of 6th (Service) Bn Dublin Fusiliers, made by a native Ismailia tradesman to sell to the battalion the day after its arrival, 12 Sep 1917, and owned by Capt N Drury, 1917. Bottle green brushed silk square, bearing chain-stitch silk embroidery. All around the edge is a lace border, crudely overlapped at each corner. Centrally is an approximate depiction of a Royal Dublin Fusiliers collar badge, with an elephant statant to dexter in black, below a yellow lion statant, regardent to dexter, with lion and elephant both enircled by the ball of a grenade. There is a scroll with a red-within-white border below the ball. On scroll, inscribed in white conjoined characters: ‘Royal Dublin Fusiliers’ Above flames of grenade, inscribed in white conjoined characters: ‘Souvenir of Egypt’

World War One, Egypt and Palestine (1914-1918)