Kilt pin, piper, Scots Guards, 1902-1905

Silver badge, hallmarked Birmingham, 1953, in the form of the Star of the Order of the Thistle, superimposed on which is a thistle on a green enamel ground, within a circlet bearing the Latin motto: 'Nemo Me Impune Lacessit' (No one provokes me with impunity).

The Scots Guards are third in the Guards order of precedence. Although they trace their origins back to 1642 they did not formally join the British Army establishment until 1661, after the Grenadier and Coldstream Guards.