Overall: 34cm (13.5in)
Silver. Standing figure of a Rifle Brigade officer modelled in full dress. Maker’s mark of the Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company, 112 Regent Street, London. Hallmarked London 1939. Mounted on ebonised base applied with a silver plaque inscribed ‘Presented to / Miss Nowell-Salmon / by the committee and many members of / The Rifle Brigade Ladies Guild / As a mark of appreciation of / Her devoted service as secretary / 1919-1940’. Height of figure: 25cm (10in).
Eleanor ‘Nellie’ Nowell Salmon was the daughter of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Nowell Salmon VC and his wife Emily Augusta Saunders. She was the brother of Colonel Geoffrey Nowell Salmon CMG, DSO of the Rifle Brigade. Her father won the Victoria Cross in the assault on the Shah Najaf Mosque while serving with HMS Shannon’s Naval Brigade at Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58.