Scabbard is steel encased wood, with two large perforations in the steel, the upper shows the wood and the lower the fish skin covering; the maker’s name, Tatham, is inscribed within a cartouche; belonging to Officer’s sword, 51st Foot, 1809 (c); the 51st became light infantry in 1809 and, like other elite regiments, adopted their own pattern for field and flank company officers; this sword belonged to Lt Benjamin Buck Hawley, aide de camp to Lord Hill at Waterloo, who joined the regiment in 1807.
Associated with the Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo (1815).