Cigarette box

Contributed by BBC Radio Solent

The cigarette box is engraved with the words 'Poole, Dorset, England', and its owner thinks it may have belonged to a soldier who was stationed in India but originally from a Poole-based regiment. Also inscribed are the words '1918', 'India' and an Indian flag. It also says 'Colonel Marshall from Pontypridd in South Wales'.

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