A British 1846 pattern Royal Naval officer's sword attributed to Commander Charles Everard Hughes

A British 1846 pattern Royal Naval officer's sword attributed to Commander Charles Everard Hughes White, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N., blade with etched decoration including a fouled anchor, retailed by J. Gieve & Sons, regulation gilt-brass hilt with fouled anchor to the cartouche, folding inner guard engraved 'C. E. H. WHITE. R.N.', gilt-brass mounted leather scabbard, with sword knot and leather hangers.

Charles Everard Hughes White was born in 1884 and entered the Royal Navy in January 1900 as a Naval Cadet. He served in torpedo boats and destroyers, and on the 1st of May 1915 he took part in the Battle of Noordhinder Bank in command of the destroyer H.M.S. Lark, assisting in the sinking of two German destroyers. On the 14th of August 1917, in command of the destroyer Melampus, he earned the approbation of the Admiralty for an energetic attack on a German submarine, and he was subsequently credited with the destruction of UC-16, for which he was awarded the D.S.O., which he received at an investiture at Buckingham Palace on the 8th of May 1919. He served in both world wars and his D.S.O. was gazetted with the 1944 Birthday Honours.