Jim,
Thats why it is imperative, that Military history and those individuals who paid with their lives, or survived and left with their memories, are treasured, and in many ways immortalised, by simply writing their details on the back of all the obje dats that messes acrue.
I made sure that our mess manager had all pictures and every single artefact logged and passed to the next person and so on, which I assumed was SOP with every Regiment, besides the silverware!!