Diameter: 47cm (18.5in)
Tenor drum with wood cylinder. Painted hoops with Foot Guards pattern ten ear tensioning system. Emblazoned with the EIIR cypher, Royal arms, and leek. First World War Battle Honours from Loos to Sambre. Additionally inscribed to the reverse with postings ‘Hubbelrath / Larzac / Schleswig-Holstein / London / Dartmoor / Camp Wainwright. Alberta/ Calgary. Alberta / Cardiff / Senny Bridge / Salisbury Plain’. Raised on three tapering legs, the top inset with acrylic. The upper hoop applied with presentation plaque inscribed ‘To / Lieutenant-Colonel P. R. Leuchars / From / The Officers / 1st Battalion Welsh Guards / August 1963 - September 1965’.
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Major-General Peter Leuchars, CBE (1921-2009) was commissioned into the Welsh Guards in 1941. He saw action at the Normandy landings in June 1944 and then in North West Europe and Italy during the Second World War. He became commanding officer of the 1st Battalion the Welsh Guards in 1963. He went on to be Chief of Staff to the Director of Operations in Borneo during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation. After that he became commander 11th Armoured Brigade in British Army of the Rhine in 1966, Deputy Commandant of the Staff College, Camberley in 1972 and General Officer Commanding Wales in 1973 before retiring in 1976. He was a Bailiff Grand Cross of the Venerable Order of St John and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He was twice mentioned in dispatches.