Original British Napoleonic Officer's Spontoon Spear Cut Down to 43" - Board of Ordnance Marked Iraq the RAF decided it didn't

the RAF decided it didn't need many inland fighter bases and was happy to lease most of them to the United States as airfields for heavy bombers

This sword features a 35 inch long blade that tapers toward the point with a deep central fuller running from the ricasso to within approx

made a full recovery

This will make a great addition to any German WWII Afrikakorps collection

Original British Napoleonic Officer's Spontoon Spear Cut Down to 43" - Board of Ordnance Marked Iraq the RAF decided it didn'tOriginal Item: Only One Available. This was released from a Regimental Museum upon closing down and had been previously on display in the Officer's Mess. It is a "SPONTOON", a long spear carried into battle very often by an Officer or Senior Sergeant, and became very handy for removing a French Cavalryman from his horse. That may be the case but its real purpose was to show the soldiers "on the line" where their commander was in all the smoke and