Kaskara sword; straight, double edged, fullered blade, engraved with a Persia-Arabic inscription, a sun and an animal, possibly an imitation of the ‘Running Wolf’ of Solingen; cross-hilt with flared quillons, the écusson is decorated with a double cross or star; round wooden grip bound with very fine leather thonging and pommel of a flat leather coil; Royal United Service Institute list states that this weapon was taken at Omdurman 1898, and was given to the Institute by Maj Gen Villiers Hatton CB. 

Associated with Col (later Maj Gen) Villiers Hatton, Grenadier Guards.