The Queen's Royal Regiment

Silver Cigarette Box

Inscribed on the lid is the Badge with Paschal Lamb and Catherine Cipher badge of The Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey), Naval Crown “June 1^st 1794”, the Sphinx, Egypt and written in scrolls “Vel Exuviae Triumphant” -“Pristinae Virtutis Memor.”

Inscribed on the front:
"I was wrought for the Officers of the 2^nd Battalion The Queen’s Royal Regiment by command of the Officers of the 22^nd London Regiment (The Queen’s) Easter 1929”.

The Pink Cigar Box

A silver cigar box presented by Colonel F J Pink CMG DSO (later Brigadier General) who commanded 1^st Bn The Queen’s Royal (West Surrey) Regiment and presented this box on relinquishing command in 1908. It has an engraved inscription on the inside of the lid, with two large silver handles. The wood is coromandee.

The Sidi Barrani Cigarette Box

A silver cigarette box with a raised Eagle in brass crest on the lid, engraved Sidi Barrani, 1940

The inscription reads:-
Presented in memory of Captain C E W Hull MC to 2^nd Battalion The Queen’s, Sidi Barrani 10 Dec 1940”.

It is signed by the following officers of the 2^nd Battalion who were present at the capture of Sidi Barrani:-

Captain Hull, surprisingly, was not killed at Sidi Barrani, the only officer casualty being Captain Lynwood. Hull was killed on the Damascus/Beirut Road, 24^th June 1941 whilst commanding B Company of 2^nd Queen’s.