No. 110 Squadron (RAF) Tankard

This half-pint electroplated silver nickel tankard is emblazoned with the crest of No. 110 Squadron (Hyderabad). It was presented to Thomas Nutt by Princess Dürrüşehvar Sultan while he was serving in India, Christmas 1943.

Thomas Ernest Nutt served with the RAF in the Far East theatre as an electrical and wireless mechanic from 1943 – 1946. Trained at Cranwell, 19-year-old Thomas was sent to Kolkata, India in 1943 to provide Air Support Control to the British Army forces, the Chindits, fighting in Burma. He was thereafter posted to No. 31 Squadron, where he worked on flights transporting supplies to troops along the northern and north-eastern border of India.