The box has a plate on it which reads ‘F Taylor Horse Artillery’. The RHA was responsible for light, mobile guns that provided firepower in support of the cavalry. It was the senior arm of the artillery, but the one that developed and grew least during the Great War. A battery had six 13-pounder field guns and included 5 officers and 200 men. It is not known who F Taylor was, but this lockable box was almost certainly where he kept his valuable personal possessions as his unit travelled from place to place.