Drummer’s sword, Mk I, 1856; 
blade is straight, unfullered, double edged and spear pointed, made by Robert Mole and Sons; brass cruciform hilt, with quillons ending in trefoils and Queen Victoria’s royal cypher on the écusson; brass grip; the solid metal hilt made this weapon heavy for its size; 
presented to Lt Col A H Wood and officers of the 2nd Battalion, Connaught Rangers by Brevet Major Ionides, East Surrey Regt, July 1903, after being found in a Boer farm the Vaal River, South Africa, during the Boer War, in 1901; the Buglers’ Mk I pattern sword is identical in design but with an iron hilt and scabbard mounts.