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Lot Essay
Handwritten note:
"This Sword was on the memorable 18 June 1815 drawn in defence of the liberties of Old England on the Plains of Waterloo and wielded by a powerful arm carried destruction into the ranks of the inveterate foe.
It was presented to Mr Thomas Cooper as a mark of high respect and esteem by his affectionate friend and cousin. Herbert Turner”.
The only Turner listed in the light cavalry at Waterloo is Lt. William Turner of the 13th Light Dragoons. It has been suggested, given the third party nature of the handwritten note, that the signatory Herbert Turner was a relation of William. William Turner wrote a detailed account of the 13th Light Dragoons involvement at Waterloo which was reproduced by C.R.B. Barrett, History of the XIII Hussars, William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1911, pp. 276-8.
"This Sword was on the memorable 18 June 1815 drawn in defence of the liberties of Old England on the Plains of Waterloo and wielded by a powerful arm carried destruction into the ranks of the inveterate foe.
It was presented to Mr Thomas Cooper as a mark of high respect and esteem by his affectionate friend and cousin. Herbert Turner”.
The only Turner listed in the light cavalry at Waterloo is Lt. William Turner of the 13th Light Dragoons. It has been suggested, given the third party nature of the handwritten note, that the signatory Herbert Turner was a relation of William. William Turner wrote a detailed account of the 13th Light Dragoons involvement at Waterloo which was reproduced by C.R.B. Barrett, History of the XIII Hussars, William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1911, pp. 276-8.