British Infantry Officers Battle Swords in the 19th C...and up to 1914

[Jim McDougall]

Old notes, found this:

From "Charge to Glory", James Lunt, (1976) p.1:
"...the charge will always remain the thing in which it will be the cavalrymans pride to die, sword in hand". -Cavalry Journal, 1909.

He dedicated the book to his friend, Capt. Arthur Sandeman, of the Central India Horse, who died leading a contingent of about 60 mounted sowars of the Burma Frontier Force in the last mounted cavalry charge of British cavalry on March 21, 1942.
On patrol at Toungoo, Burma, which was the site of the airfield for the famed American Volunteer Group (the 'Flying Tigers') , seeing a body of military they first mistook for Chinese, then realizing it was Japanese infantry who opened fire....
Capt. Sandeman instinctively raised his sword, the over 60 sowars, mostly Sikhs, charged , in the old style with sabers. He and most of the sowars were killed,