sword, infantry officer, sword, infantry
Accession Number
NAM.1961-08-21-1
Description
Infantry Officer’s sword, 1845 pattern, owned by Lt Col Archibald William Clarke, 4th Royal Lancashire Militia (later 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)), 1850 (c) ‘Gothic’ hilt with folding inner guard, or fall, and Queen Victoria’s cypher in cartouche; grip covered with large grained fish skin.