Description
Maker: Robert Pringle and Sons, London 1909, stamped Rd no. 428788, the egg-shaped bowl, engraved and inscribed: A.R. Taylor, No. 23 Troop, E.G. M. R. (East Griqualand Mounted Rifles), attached to a tapered and knopped vase-shaped handle, surmounted by an elaborate Rococo-style leafy-scroll adorned enamelled shield armorial, depicting a target board, beribboned wreath and two intertwined shooting rifles, all in polychrome colours (Length: 12cm) (Total mass: 15g) Note: The East Griqualand Mounted Rifles were raised in 1892 in East Griqualand as a district defence force against trouble periodically arising, or threatened, in those uneasy times,… The regiment took part in the suppression of the Lefleur Rebellion of the Griquas of 1897, the Anglo-Boer War of 1899 -1902, and the First Great War, 1914-1918. In the second it was largely used in the duty of guarding its western borders against inroads of Boer raiding parties, largely Cape rebels in composition. The E.G.M.R. became virtually moribund after the First Great War, and most of the younger members became absorbed into the East London squadron of the Transkei Mounted Rifles, Reference: https://www.angloboerwar.com/unit-information/south-african-units/2002-east-griqualand-mounted-rifles#:~:text=The%20East%20Griqualand%20Mounted%20Rifles,the%20generic%20name%20of%20Griquas.
