Infantry Officer sword, 1801-1808; straight blade with single fuller, and engraved decoration, including the Royal Coat of Arms for 1801-1816, in garter and motto, GR cypher, and the maker’s name, J.J. Runkel; steel stirrup guard, sword knot ring at pommel; reeded ivory grip bears two oval plaques incised with garters and motto surmounted by a crown and the letter ‘C’ or ‘G’; carried by Mr Thomas Twemlow during the Napoleonic Wars, supposedly of the Staffordshire Militia; the sword is a pattern which was favoured by Volunteer Infantry Forces, but the only Thomas Twemlow in the Military lists of this period is of the Cheshire Militia.