Efforts
to identify another glass object are being made by the Kings Own Light
Infantry. This is far more valuable than the Park Lake bottle. It is a
beautifully made glass goblet, said to be "a very fine piece,"
with a silver Victorian threepenny bit set inside its fluted stem.
Major
Aubrey Sharp came upon it in his home during a check after a burglary. He
has no idea how it came into his family’s possession, but undoubtedly it
has K.O.Y.L.I. connections. It bears the number 105 and the motto of the
regiment, Nulti Secundas (second to none).
At
the regimental museum at Pontefract Barracks, where the goblet now is,
Captain Frank Young told me the number refers to the 105th Madras Light
Infantry, which became the 2nd Battalion K.O.Y.L.I., in 1882.
"We
are anxious to trace the goblet’s history," he added. Any K.O.Y.L.I.
veterans got any ideas?
