Prize tankards, pewter tankards, plated tankards

[High Wood]

A new thread for fellow collectors of tankards with military connections, engraved inscriptions relating to named individuals and anything else of interest. Please feel free to upload examples of your own.

Plated tankards are difficult to photograph without the camera or photographer's hand being visible in the picture so please excuse the quality of some of these pictures.

The first one is a prize tankard awarded by the 18th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers to Pte. William Kiff for attendence at drill, July 1866.

[High Wood]

A Warwickshire Yeomany pewter tankard presented by Captain F. S. Webster.

[Ben Bevan]

Great thread!
Northern Bengal Mounted Rifles 1922 (The Lloyd Linsay was a fours showjumping competition) Coulson-Bryant went from Trooper to Lieut. and retired back to his tea plantation, as most of the regiment did.

[JerryBB]

the BSM Cheek MC silver plated tankard

[JerryBB]

to Sgt Taylor on his marriage, SGT's mess, 2nd BN London Scottish, not dated though

[High Wood]

13th Middlesex (Queen's Westminster) Volunteer Rifle Corps. 1907. "L" Coy Bayonet competition. Awarded to Sgt. S. Stanley.

[Ben Bevan]

Nearly a tankard...a prize horn/silver beaker with cup and cigarette case, all skill at arms trophies won by the wonderfully named John William Blackadder, Lothians & Berwickshire Yeo.Cav. in 1891 & ‘98 at the Royal Military Tournament in London.

[High Wood]

Inns of Court O.T.C. Prize for Recruits. 1922. Won by Pte. E. M. Brandebourg. Eric Maitland Brandebourg born Chester 1895. Served in the Machine Gun Corps and the Hampshire Regiment during the Great War. Died 1947, Mid Surrey, age 52.

[Expat Yeoman]

Essex Yeomanry Cavalry. 1874.

Presented by Lieutenant Colonel John Glas Sandeman. For most constant attendance at drills.

[High Wood]

Originally Posted by Ben Bevan

Nearly a tankard...a prize horn/silver beaker with cup and cigarette case, all skill at arms trophies won by the wonderfully named John William Blackadder, Lothians & Berwickshire Yeo.Cav. in 1891 & ‘98 at the Royal Military Tournament in London.

Very nice and it is good to see that they have survived. I go through boxes of pewter tankards that one dealer has collected to take for scrapping. I have got him to put those with a military connection to one side and have managed to save a few over the years.

[High Wood]

Originally Posted by JerryBB

to Sgt Taylor on his marriage, SGT's mess, 2nd BN London Scottish, not dated though

Probably 1941.

Marriages Dec 1941
Taylor. Macfarlane W. J. Alcock. Chepstow 11a 27

Marriages Dec 1941
Alcock. Sybil. M. M. Taylor. Chepstow 11a 27

I am not sure if the 2nd Btn London Scottish were anywhere near Chepstow in 1941 though.

It seems that he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers.
London Gazette. 4th January 1944.
2880810 Macfarlane Walter James Taylor. 299722. To be 2nd Lieut. 14th November 1943.

Sadly, he was killed in action just after D. Day.

LIEUTENANT
MACFARLANE WALTER JAMES TAYLOR
Service Number: 299722
Regiment & Unit. Royal Engineers

Date of Death. Died 08 June 1944. Age 36 years old

Commemorated at BAYEUX MEMORIAL. Panel 11, Column 3. France

Additional Info
Son of Alexander Macfarlane Chisholm Taylor and Kate May Taylor; husband of Sybil Margaret Marie Taylor, of Chepstow, Monmouthshire.

[orasot]

I like a tankard or two as well! Here’s another 13th Mx, L Coy again but from 1906.

[High Wood]

Originally Posted by orasot

I like a tankard or two as well! Here’s another 13th Mx, L Coy again but from 1906.

Good to see another example and interesting to see that they kept the same unusual design of tankard going year after year. They must have had a particular supplier of tankards or they just put in a very big order the first year.

[High Wood]

Half Pint pewter tankard from the Sergeants' Mess. 52nd Light Infantry. Pre 1881. Later the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.

[High Wood]

2378-650564 L/Cpl Herbert Stanley Maddocks. First Surrey Rifles. To France 16th March 1915. Wounded 11th September 1915. Discharged with a Silver War Badge. 31st December 1917.