NAM.1983-01-71-1

Sabretache, officers’, 3rd Regiment of Light Cavalry, Bombay, 1850 (c); associated with 1st Afghan War (1838-1842). White Morocco leather pouch. Frontal flap faced with French grey cloth trimmed around upper, lower and side edges with silver vandyke (Artillery) pattern lace. Within the lace the silver embroidered entwined letters: BLC below which is a silver wire scroll edged with double gold wire and bearing the silver wire battle honour: CABOOL. Below the scroll the gold wire embroidered date 1842. To the left of the date a silver wire scroll edged with double gold wire and bearing the silver wire battle honour: GHUZNEE. To the right of the date a similar scroll bearing the battle honour: HYDERABAD. Below the date a silver wire and spangle embroidered star upon the centre of which is a silver wire embroidered Maltese Cross. Upon the centre of the cross a silver wire circlet within which is the silver wire numeral 3 upon a gold wire ground.

Ghuznee, Battle of, 1839 (1st Afghan War 1838-1842), Hyderabad, Battle of, 1843 (Sind 1843), Kabul, Retreat from, 1842 (1st Afghan War 1838-1842)