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Officer’s sabretache worn by Captain William Tyrwhitt Drake, Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, at the Battle of Waterloo, 1815
sabretache, undress, officer, sabretache
Accession Number

NAM.2001-06-18-1

Description

Officer’s undress sabretache, Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, worn by Capt (later Lt Col) William Tyrwhitt-Drake, believed to have been worn at the Battle of Waterloo, 1815 (c). Black leather pouch with fitting for four writing implements and an ink bottle on front of pouch under frontal flap. Black leather strap with three stud holes. Two brass D-shaped sling fittings. Brass stud fitting. Black leather binding. White metal lock, possibly originally gilded. Black leather frontal flap, pointed at lower edge. Gilt metal badge, with die struck design of the reversed royal cypher ‘GR’ within a garter with roped border bearing the garter motto, the garter being upon the centre of an eight pointed rayed star and below a monarchial crown, with above all three eyelets for attaching a scroll (now absent), with split pin fittings. Associated with Battle of Waterloo (1815), Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo (1815).

Events

Waterloo, Battle of, 1815 (Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo 1815)

Associated collection