Welsh Guards Officers Sword by Wilkinson

Welsh Guards Officers Sword by Wilkinson Number 68416 WW II period and purchased by Horace Brimson Trevor-Cox. Regulation hilt with fish skin gip and chequered back strap. The blade is in good condition and well etched with Crown G R VI the Welsh Guards regimental badge, battle honours and owners initials H.B.T – C. plus Wilkinson Sword London and proof plug. Complete with field service scabbard and sword knot. Horace Brimson Trevor-Cox was appointed in 1938 as a Parliamentary Private Secretary to the trade minister Ronald Cross, becoming the most junior member of Neville Chamberlain’s government. In his Commons speeches before the war, he drew on his experience of Germany to warning about the likelihood of war. When World War II broke out in September 1939, Cox volunteered for the Welsh Guards, and for the rest of the war divided his time between the army and the House of Commons.