Queens Dragoon Guards 1796 Troopers Sword

British 1796 troopers sword regimentally marked QDG K 40, disc hilt Waterloo period sword, regulation pattern with all steel hilt leather grip is missing, straight blade with inspection stamp, hatchet point please note staining and pitting toward this area. Hilt and scabbard both engraved QDG K 40 The Queens Dragoon Guards were part of the Household Cavalry Brigade at Waterloo – Notes: The Regiments losses in killed and wounded during the battle were the highest ever recorded. Tradition holds that the surviving Officers and Sergeants sat down together to share their meal on the evening of the battle. The KDG charged 13 times during the battle; although they started the day with a strength of 570 sabres, by the end of it there were less than 100 men left of the Household Cavalry Brigade on the field, of which probably not more than 30 were KDG. Captain Naylor of the KDG who as a junior captain ended the day commanding the entire Cavalry Brigade. In memory of that evening the officers and sergeants of 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards dine together in the Sergeant’s Mess on each 18th June.