King’s Shropshire Light Infantry Officer’s Helmet Plate. Navy Cloth He lost a quarter of

He lost a quarter of a million dollars on Boxing Day night in December 1904 playing baccarat at the Khedieval Club in Cairo

thus enabling me to use my gun

was told that we could either stay and serve our sentences or go to the front lines

Collins spent the next ten years in recurrent financial difficulty in the United States

King’s Shropshire Light Infantry Officer’s Helmet Plate. Navy Cloth He lost a quarter ofKings Shropshire Light Infantry Officers Helmet Plate. A good Victorian example with a gilt Victorian crowned star mounted with a Garter and laurel sprays bearing a silver regimental title scroll Kings Shropshire Lt Infy with a green enamel centre with a strung silver bugle with entwined initials KSLI below the bugle strings, the reverse with three lugs, enamel damage to the bottom right, very little gilding remaining, otherwise good condition $385