NAM.1960-02-42-1

Pattern 1834, Rifle Regiment Officer’s sword; spear pointed blade with engraved decoration, including a stringed bugle enclosing the number ‘60, the maker’s name Pulford and Company and the regimental title, The Kings Royal Rifle Corps; steel ‘Gothic’ Rifle Corps guard, with a bugle and crown in cartouche; plain wood grip with figure mouldings; owned by Maj H Bolton, who was aide de camp to Lord Roberts on the march from Kabul to Kandahar, 2nd Afghan War.

Kabul, Retreat from, 1842 (1st Afghan War 1838-1842)