Height: 9cm (3.5in)
Silver. Set of three. Each modelled with the XXV regimental number, encircled by the title with a wreath of thistles; ensigned by the royal crest, and all over a presentation inscription scroll ‘Presented by / Major Ramsay’, mounted on an ebonised base.
‘The King's Own Scottish Borderers, A Concise History’ by T Royle, notes: ‘But for personality problems in the command structure, 1/25th would have taken part in the operations to relieve Kandahar. Following the loss of the commanding Officer, who had been invalided home during the recent cholera outbreak, the battalion was commanded by Major F. S. Terry but he found himself in constant disagreement with the other senior officer, Major N. C. Ramsay.’ Lieutenant (later Lieutenant General Sir) Charles Woollcombe, would write; ‘… Major Terry was in command. He was a good friend to me and a good soldier, but he had a way of fighting with the General and Staff, and the everlasting row between him and Major Ramsay never ceased …’ [the two officers] ‘had quarrelled since they were Subalterns and they could not work together…’