Sword, 1854 Rifle Volunteers
Description
An 1854 pattern rifle volunteers sword with a basket type steel handguard featuring a crown above a bugle. The blade is engraved and features the crown and cypher of Queen Victoria on one side. On the other side a crown features above " 29th W.R.Y. Rifle Volunteers" and " Charles Alfred Hemingway, Esquire". The nickle plated scabbard is battered.
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This
sword
originally
belonged
to
Captain
Charles
Alfred
Hemingway,
who
served
as
a
surgeon
in
the
29th
West
Riding
of
Yorkshire
Rifle
Volunteer
Corps.
It
was
collected
and
brought
to
New
Zealand
by
Edward
Frederick
Hemingway.
Accession number
A78.248
Collection type
Material
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