Interest in the sword was reignited this week when I read two articles – one in The Telegraph and another in The Times. These fascinating pieces focused on the sad story of Sir Harry’s missing VC. I decided to write to the editors, referring to another article written in 2005, which stated that Sir Harry’s sword disappeared from the College in the 1960s. To my surprise, The Telegraph wrote a follow-up piece, which can be found here.
As Eleanor Steafel writes, we are now looking at records held in the archive to see if we can discover more about the sword, and where it might be now.