Interesting 1796 Pattern Cavalry Troopers Sword with History Relating to the Major Rogers Rocket Battery at Waterloo, regulation blade 81cms, regulation hilt (grip covering missing) in its iron scabbard. Both hilt and scabbard are heavily pitted, and the blade is well worn. Glued to the scabbard is a printed note stating the sword was ‘ R A Rocket Corps, from Major Rogers’ Battery at Waterloo – Given to the Royal United Services Museum by Major-General R. Wilson’. The Waterloo Roll Call gives the following information, ‘Was near Picton when the latter was killed at Waterloo, and was the last survivor of Rogers’s Waterloo Battery. Was superintendent at Shoeburyness during the Crimean War. D. as Maj-Gen, retd f p 24th Oct 1876’.