83.75cm clean blade by Wilkinson, serial no. 28197 for 1887, etched with scrolling foliage, crowned VR cypher and laurel wreath and the inscription PRESENTED TO GENTLEMAN CADET PERCY T. BOURNE ON OBTAINING HIS COMMISSION FROM THE ROYAL ACADEMY FOR HIS EXEMPLARY CONDUCT WHILST AT THE INSTITUTION. 1887, regulation pierced gilt brass hilt, wire bound fishskin grip, contained in its plated steel scabbard. Retains all of the polish and etched matt grey ground to the blade. Percy Trevor Bourne was commissioned 2nd Lt from the RMA 22nd July 1887, promoted to Lieutenant in July 1990. Bourne was killed when the yacht he was sailing in with two army colleagues off the coast of Malta was struck by the P&O vessel Sutlej.