Description (Labels & Markings)
Label attached to object reads: 'R.1915.226. Platinum (?) finger-ring with 50 cents plain bezel, made by Belgian soldier at the DIXMUDE front trenches for donor 1915. Baroness A. v. Hugel'.
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Production / use)
Blue Book for BB 1915.226: 'Belgian trenches at Dixmude. Made by a Belgium soldier at the front from an exploded German (Bosch) shell by a Belgian soldier who spent his leave with relatives in the Hügel Home for Belgian refugee and presented the ring to the donor. AvH [Anatole von Hügel].'
Event Date 1915
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Blue Book for BB 1915.226: 'Finger ring made of platinum (from fragment of exploded German shells). Bezel set with a fifty centimes coin showing head of King Albert of Belgium'.
Event Date 1915
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Related Documents)
See 'Report on Collections Research and Cataloguing Project on Post Medieval 'To Be Disposed Of' Material' by David Kay in the archive (Doc.474) for background information.
Event Date 2019
Author: Lucie Carreau