ATTRIBUTED**WW1 1915 British Henry Wilkinson P 1912 Cavalry Officer’s Sword Etched Monogram Blade Number 48745 To 2nd LT Ferguson Scottish Horse Yeomanry Killed Egypt 1916 With Field Service Scabbard & Provenance. Sn 23484:103 Sword

**ATTRIBUTED**WW1 1915 British Henry Wilkinson P 1912 Cavalry Officer’s Sword Etched Monogram Blade Number 48745 To 2nd LT Ferguson Scottish Horse Yeomanry Killed Egypt 1916 With Field Service Scabbard & Provenance. Sn 23484:103 - 23484:103

The Scottish Horse was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army's Territorial Army raised in 1900 for service in the Second Boer War. It saw heavy fighting in both the First World War, as the 13th Battalion, Black Watch, and in the Second World War, as part of the Royal Artillery. It amalgamated with the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry to form the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse in 1956. The lineage is maintained by "C" Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse Squadron of The Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry based in Cupar in Fife. 2nd Lieut Alexander Robertson Ferguson served with the 1/3rd Scottish Horse Yeomanry during WW1 and was accidentally killed on 14th June 1916 while serving in Egypt This is an original, WW1 British 1912 Pattern Heavy Cavalry Officer’s Sword to 2nd Lieut Alexander Robertson Ferguson. The Sword has an undamaged 35" single edged blade with fuller (43" overall). The blade is clean & etched on one side with stylise ‘ARF’ combined monogram (Alexander Robertson Ferguson). The ricasso is crisply marked on one side by the manufacturer ‘Henry Wilkinson Pall Mall London’ together with Royal Warrant. The reverse has the ordnance acceptance star and inlaid proof roundel. It has a full bowl guard with fish skin wire bound handle with correct thumb recess for grip. The fish skin & wire binding is all clean and intact. The hilt is fitted with its original buff leather officer's cord and leather portepee. The back of the blade is numbered ‘48745’ (Wilkinson records state that this sword was sold to Ferguson Scottish Horse 10th April 1915). It is complete with its original leather bound field service scabbard. All leather and stitching of the scabbard are clean & intact. Copies of some Family antecedents, the Officer’s field service record reporting his death in 1916, a copy of his Commonwealth War Graves Kantara (Egypt) war memorial record & copies of archive records from Wilkinson Sword stating that this sword number 48745 was sold to Ferguson Scottish Horse 10th April 1915 accompany the sword. The price for this WW1 Officer’s sword worthy of further research includes UK delivery. Sn 23484:103

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