A George V Black Watch Presentation Silver Cigar Box

Inscribed: ‘Presented to / Captain W.H. Winship / R.T.C./ By some of his former brother officers / In the Black Watch / 20 th July 1935.’, the lid further engraved with the regimental badge and facsimile signatures of eight officers, by Mackay & Chisholm of 59 Princes Street, Edinburgh.

Signatues include:

W.F. Dundas (Lt-Col., D.S.O. Second in command 1 st Bn. Black Watch, taken prisoner at St.Valery-en-Caux 1940)
H. Kieth Purvis-Russell-Montgomery (Lt-Col., O.B.E., D.L., Commanding officer 10th Bn. Black Watch 1939 )
Neil Ritchie (Gen. G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., M.C., General Officer Commanding-in-Chief 8 th Army, Libya, Middle East 1942-43, Colonel, The Black Watch, 1950-52