Auction Catalogue

24 & 25 February 2016

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 534

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24 February 2016

Hammer Price:
£150

An 1827 pattern light infantry officer’s sword for a member of the Marlborough College Cadet Corps. who was later to become a Colonel in the Royal Marines, the 64cm blade of dumbbell section by Firmin & Sons, St. Martin’s Lane, London, etched with crowned VR cypher, light infantry bugle, foliate scrolls, etc. and within a panel near the ricasso ‘Bernard C. Gardiner. Marlborough College Cadet Corps. 1896.’ regulation steel guard incorporating light infantry bugle, fully chequered back-strap, fish-skin covered grip bound with copper wire, complete with its steel scabbard with two hanging rings, blade rather discoloured £150-200

Colonel Bernard Calwoodley Gardiner C.B. Royal Marines.

Born 1879, educated at Marlborough College, commissioned Royal Marines 1897, Colonel 2nd. Commandant by 1929. Served Great War 1914-1918, C. B. 1919. He died at St. Alban’s Priory, Wallingford in 1932.

Sold with a quantity of research.