Vase – showing portrait of Frederick Sleigh Roberts and Horatio Herbert Kitchener

Vase, mustard and brown colors, appears to be Porcelain – showing portrait of Frederick Sleigh Roberts and Horatio Herbert Kitchener. Comes with a scrap of paper, which the details of the item has been hand written.
Older gentleman is Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1832-1914, Field Marshall, Lord Roberts of Kandahar & Waterford. Awarded the VC i(Victorian Cross)n Jan 2nd, 1858, when he was a Lieutenant in Bengal Artillery. Was retired by the time of World War I. His son was also awarded the V.C during the Boer War, but died of his wounds (Colenso, S Africa) Circa Dec 1899.

Internet search revealed :- Frederick Sleigh Roberts (right), was born in India in 1832. He was promoted to Field Marshal in 1895. In 1899, soon after the outbreak of the Second Boer War and aged 67, he was sent to succeed Buller as the Supreme Commander, Buller having made serious tactical errors in the battle of Colenso in which Roberts’ own son had been fatally wounded. Roberts was a brilliant military strategist. He was held in great affection and was much respected by those under him and by his colleagues. Major General Lord Kitchener was his Chief of Staff. Just weeks after Roberts arrived in Cape Town his cavalry division charged through the Boer lines to relieve the siege of Kimberly, where Cecil Rhodes was penned up. It was Roberts who finally relieved Ladysmith on 28 February 1900 after a four-month siege by Boer forces.
Younger gentleman is Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1850-1916. Field Marshal Lord Kitchener of KHartoum. Led expedition up the Nile to relieve General Gordon, but was too late in 1898.

Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC (/?k?t??n?r/; 24 June 1850 � 5 June 1916) was an Irish-born senior British Army officer and colonial administrator. Kitchener won notoriety for his imperial campaigns, especially his scorched earth policy against the Boers, his expansion of Lord Roberts’ internment camps during the Second Boer War[1][2] and his central role in the early part of the First World War.

Pottery mark = Established during the Great War 1914. Ridgeways, England. The word SETSU is embossed on the bottom of the vase. The Ridgway family was one of the important dynasties manufacturing Staffordshire pottery, with a large number of family members and business names, over a period from the 1790s to the late 20th century