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Description: | The pistol would have fired Verey flares. It has a heavy brass barrel and body, and wooden grips. It has a 1" diameter barrel, and is stamped with the maker's name, serial number, and deactivation mark. During the wars that preceded the common usage of telephone lines or high quality wireless, the use of coloured flares was common to send signals to forward troops, from forward troops back to a HQ and illumination (white) flares to light a small area of defence or attack at night-time. (www.diggerhistory.info)
Standard army issue Webley & Scott signal pistol (deactivated 1989). | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Walsall Museums | Rights holder: | Walsall Museums | Subjects: | Army First World War (1914-1918) | Temporal: | c.1916 | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | Webley and Scott | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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