A Light Cavalry Officers 1821 Pattern Sword, 40" overall, 34 ½” straight blade with broad fuller & spear point, etched with trailing foliage & crowned VR on one side, the other with 16th Lancers Regimental badge & motto, & the regiment’s 13 Battle Honours from Talavera in 1809 to Sobraon in 1846. Etched on the forte 'Henry Wilkinson Pall Mall London’, numbered on the spine 23731. Three bar steel hilt, chequered pommel, fish skin grip, with its original bullion acorn sword knot. In its original plated steel scabbard with 2 suspension rings.
Number 23731 for 1880.
Sword in very good condition, very good blade.
Lieutenant Matthew Herbert Woods. Commissioned 22.3.1879 Lieutenant 1.12.1880, retired by 1886.