Height: 15cm (5.7in)
Silver. Table bell of domed form inscribed ‘To the / Die Hards / from the / Officers of the Garrison Class / Dover / September 1885 / Captain Rumley RMLI / Captain H. Wiley 10th Regt. / Lieut Agnew Rifle Brigade / Lieut Staniland 8th Hussars / “ Ashurst 33rd Regt / “ Scaife 33rd Regt / “ White 33rd Regt / “ Wilkinson 33rd Regt / “ Goodwyn 33rd Regt’, surmounted by the roman numeral LVII for the 57th Regiment of Foot, and the wreathed and crowned Peninsula War battle honour ‘Albuera’. Maker’s mark of George Unite. Hallmarked Birmingham 1885.
During the Battle of Albuera (1811), Lieutenant-Colonel William Inglis of the 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot was wounded by canister shot. Despite his wounds, Inglis refused to retire from the battle but remained with the Colours, encouraging his men with the words ‘Die hard 57th, die hard!’ as they came under intense pressure from a French attack.