A Victorian electroplated regimental cup (tyg)

A Victorian electroplated regimental cup (tyg), The Highland Light Infantry, (Militia),

by Elkington and Co, 1872,

tapering circular form, with three bands of reeded decoration, plain handles, engraved with the badge and inscribed 'Presented to The Mess Highland Lt. Infantry (Militia), by F.G. Kinloch on his appointment to the 92nd Highlanders, June 1874', height 16.8cm.

Provenance: a Private Collection of Regimental Silver.

Lieutenant Francis Kinloch (1852-1879) went to school at Brighton College and in 1872 he joined the 76th Inverness, Banff, Moray and Nair Regiment of Militia (Highland Light Infantry). He was soon appointed an instructor in musketry having attained a first class certificate at the School of Musketry at Hythe in Kent.

In 1874 he joined the 92 Gordon Highlanders, already in India, and he immediately went to join the battalion in Bengal. He went on in 1878 to become the adjutant of the 5th Bengal Cavalry.

During the second Afghan war he was en route to join his Regiment, when he was ambushed and murdered in the Kurram valley.