Infantry & Corps Officers’ Sword
Blade & Tang The blade and tang shall be manufactured in one
piece from steel, hardened and tempered to within
the range of 400-500 HV. The length of the blade is
830mm.
Guard Steel polished and nickel-plated
Backpiece Brass casting, polished and nickel-plated
Grip Wooden core covered in fish skin. Three strand
grip wire silver plated
Ferrule Mild steel, polished and nickel-plated
Under nut Mild steel, natural
Pommel nut Brass, polished and nickel-plated
Buff Leather, brown.
Scabbard 1mm steel tube with brass mouthpiece and two
steel carrying rings, all nickel-plated. Brown or
black leather scabbard available for use with Sam
Browne.
Regiments:
Royal Tank Regiment
Corps of Royal Engineers
Royal Corps of Signals
The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
The Royal Anglian Regiment
The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment
The Yorkshire Regiment
The Mercian Regiment
The Royal Welsh
The Royal Irish Regiment
The Parachute Regiment
Royal Army Medical Corps
Corps of Royal Electrical and
Mechanical Engineers
Adjutant General’s Corps
(Includes ETS & RMP)
Intelligence Corps
Queen’s Gurkha Signals
Royal Marines
Queen’s Gurkha Engineers
