Pattern 1897 Infantry Officer’s sword for Corps of Signals.
Owned by Colonel James Richard Sancroft Grimwood-Taylor, Royal Corps of Signals 1936-1980 (c).  

Sword is normal for the type and period, with a narrow blade. No maker’s or retailer’s name on ricasso. Proof mark is word Proved around a capital ‘W’ - possibly a short-lived Wilkinson mark. Hilt and blade marked with George VI cypher, blade also carrying the emblem of the Royal Corps of Signals.

Grimwood-Taylor served in the RCS (Territorial Army) from his commission in 1936 through World War Two (1939-1945) when he was a War Service Captain, until his retirement when he was the corps’ most senior Colonel in 1980.