stirrup slide, stirrup slide
Accession Number

NAM.1975-04-3-1

Description

Pair of officers’ stirrup slides, 11th Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry (Frontier Force), used by Lt Col Horace Anthony Garstin, 1934 (c), with badge of 1923-1947 pattern. Gilt metal, with fronts with rounded ends and the backs covered with brown leather. On the front of each slide, the following white metal design: superimposed upon two crossed swords, a five-pointed rayed star upon the centre of which is a circlet bearing the battle honour: ‘KABUL TO KANDAHAR’. Within the circlet, the letters ‘P A V O’. Above all, between the points of the swords, a monarchial crown.