A solid silver model of a lancer by Carrington & Co, 1905

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Presented by the 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers to MAJOR JOHN DOUGLAS GILROY on the occasion of his marriage to Frances Mona Rudd, April 18th 1927. Footnote: John Douglas Gilroy was educated at Winchester but left in 1916 to go to the Royal Military College Sandhurst. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 9 th Lancers (“The Delhi Spearmen”) and served with this Regiment until 1928. He rejoined his Regiment at the start of World War II. Frances Mona was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Percy Rudd of Kimberley, South Africa. Henry Percy Rudd (1869–1961), who succeeded Cecil Rhodes as head of the De

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A solid silver model of a lancer by Carrington & Co, 1905

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