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Silver Cigarette Case
J.W.Dixie-Smith (left) was a popular Leicester businessman, who for two seasons
had played for the city's Rugby union team, the Leicester Tigers. In 1915 he received a commission in the 10th battalion Leicestershire
Regiment, a reserve battalion which supplied reinforcements to the front line units. He served as battalion Signalling Officer
until 1916, when he was posted to the 8th battalion in France. He remained with this unit until the battalion was disbanded
in 1918. In 1917 he was Mentioned in Dispatches, probably for the 8th battalion's attack on the Hindenburg Line in May of
that year.
The silver cigarette case also seen on this page was presented to Dixie-Smith
by the NCOs and men of the Signalling Section of the 10th Leicesters, as a mark of their esteem, when he left the battalion.
The case cannot have been cheap, and the gesture was a mark of the high regard in which Dixie-Smith was held.
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