NAM.2007-02-15-1

Pattern 1831 General Officer’s sword, owned by Gen Sir John Cheape, Bengal Engineers, 1854 (c)-1875 (c). Blade is curved with a latch-back and floral decorations, along with the general officer’s emblem, VR cypher and retailer’s name, ‘Buckmaster’. Mameluke hilt with ivory grip and general’s emblem in centre of crossguard. Cheape joined the Bengal Engineers in 1809 and became a Major General in 1854.