87.5cm blade by Wilkinson, serial no. 28306 for 1887, sharpened for use and with edge nicks, etched with scrolling foliage, crowned VR cyphers, maker's panel and owner's crest and initials, regulation pierced steel hilt, wire bound fishskin grip, contained in its plated steel scabbard. Lieutenant Colonel Harold Platt Sykes (d.1942) of Longford Hall, Newport, commanded the Denbigh Yeomanry in WWI, having previously served in the 2nd Dragoon Guards during the Second Boer War where he took part in the relief of Mafeking. Sold with a quantity of research and a photograph of Longford Hall.