Note 146 — Chapter VI · 1848-1854. THE SECOND WAR WITH BURMA.

Some of the officers embarked in the Buckinghamshire, an ill-fated ship which was burned at sea on March 3, 1851. They escaped with their lives, but the regimental plate, and the trophies won in many campaigns by the regiment, were lost, with the exception of one piece of plate, a gold snuff-box, saved, according to tradition, by an officer who, when the fire alarm sounded, snatched it off the mess table, thrust it into his trousers’ pocket, and brought it safe to land.