The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
British Pattern 1892 Medical Officer's sword and scabbard. The hilt has a brass half basket 'gothic' style guard having a GVR cartouche badge and checkered back strap with a wire bound fishskin grip. The straight blade has a single fuller to each side to within eighteen inches of the spear point. It is etched with a foliage design for half the length on both sides with a crown over the badge of the Army Medical Corps on the centre right and the royal GVR cypher on the left. The ricasso has a brass disc stamped APPROVED on the right side within the interlocking triangle symbol. The scabbard is nickel plated sheet steel with two loose rings located at three inches and eleven inches respectively from the throat.
This sword is unusual in that the 1892 pattern guard was obsolete by the time King George V came to the throne.
British Pattern 1892 Infantry Officer's sword and scabbard. The hilt has a brass half basket 'gothic' style guard having a crown VR cartouche badge and a checkered back strap with a wire bound fishski
British Pattern 1892 Infantry Officer's sword and scabbard. The hilt has a nickel plated half basket 'gothic' style guard having a VR cartouche badge and a plain back strap with a wire bound fishskin
Pattern 1892 infantry officers sword with a gilded brass 'gothic' style guard with the cypher of GVR. The grip is fishskin and is missing the brass wire binding. The blade is numbered 6775 and has etc
Pattern 1822 officer's sword with a half basket brass guard incorporating the cartouche badge of the New South Wales Military Forces. The grip is wire bound fishskin. The slightly curved blade has a s
British Pattern 1827 Rifle Officer's sword and scabbard. The hilt has a steel Pattern 1827 three bar half basket guard with a crown over a stringed bugle cartouche badge and a brass wire bound fishski
British Pattern 1897 Infantry Officer sword and scabbard. The hilt has a nickel plated three quarter 'scroll' pattern pierced sheet steel guard with the GVR royal cypher and is stamped 3MD 495 10/13.
