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<blockquote data-quote="Olive" data-source="post: 1437380" data-attributes="member: 1297">I know that lance units were still in use during WWI as my great grandfather was an officer in a German one. Also, while swords weren't issued as weapons during WW2, I think bayonets were, and melee weapons in the form of shovels were definitely used during the Siege of Stalingrad.Edit: I can't believe I forgot this, given what my thesis is about. While not swords, Indian soldiers during the First World War, inparticular the Gurkhas, were equiped with kukris. There are numerous reports of these troops using these knives in battle, occasionally in preference to their rifles.However, it's important to note that these stories may be completely untrue! While the gurkhas are still equiped and trained with these to this day, the use of the kukri takes on a particular symbolic role in media reports of the period, and the Indian troops as a whole, but particularly the gurkhas were subject to a huge amount of romanticisation in the press and by military officers themselves.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Olive, post: 1437380, member: 1297"] I know that lance units were still in use during WWI as my great grandfather was an officer in a German one. Also, while swords weren't issued as weapons during WW2, I think bayonets were, and melee weapons in the form of shovels were definitely used during the Siege of Stalingrad. Edit: I can't believe I forgot this, given what my thesis is about. While not swords, Indian soldiers during the First World War, inparticular the Gurkhas, were equiped with [I]kukris[/I]. There are numerous reports of these troops using these knives in battle, occasionally in preference to their rifles. However, it's important to note that these stories may be completely untrue! While the gurkhas are still equiped and trained with these to this day, the use of the kukri takes on a particular symbolic role in media reports of the period, and the Indian troops as a whole, but particularly the gurkhas were subject to a huge amount of romanticisation in the press and by military officers themselves. [/QUOTE]

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