Original Item: One-of-a-kind. Well, this is absolutely “top of the line”. A magnificent senior officer swagger stick 36 inches in overall length with horn tip and hall marked gold top mount. The gold top is engraved with the full Regimental Cypher of “THE YORK AND LANCASTER REGIMENT” and is engraved:
MAJOR GENERAL FREDERICK HARDY C.B.,
HONORY COLONEL,
THE YORK AND LANCASTER REGIMENT.
An exceptional quality item made of the finest materials money could buy at the time. Research tells us Major General Hardy was the “Colonel of the Regiment” from 1908 up to the First World War.
An amazing item relating to WW1 when British Senior Officers were treated like Gods.