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Description: | 1. DWM monogram
2. 1916
3. 4.K.
4. 1736 l
5. W A EVERITT BEAUMONT HAMEL 14TH NOV. 1916
The Parabellum pistol was designed in the 1890s by Georg Luger, an employee of the German arms making company Deutsche Waffen-und Munitionsfabriken. Luger's name has since supplanted the pistol's trade-name 'Parabellum' in common use. His design was a development on an earlier DWM product - the Borchardt pistol.
Central to the concept was a method of breech locking which employed a toggle-action, similar to that employed in Maxim machine-guns. Parabellums were made to a high standard and continued to be made by various manufacturers until the early years of the Second World War.
The Parabellum was sold commercially and also purchased by several European armies. The German Navy adopted a version in 1904, followed by the German Army in 1908. The year of adoption gave the latter its military designation: Pistole 08.
This Pistole 08 was captured on 14 November 1916, at Beaumont Hamel, France, by Captain W A Everitt of the 7th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. It bears the unit mark of the German 4th Kurassier Regiment.
Regimental history records the taking of souvenirs from captured dugouts by 7th Bn A&SH, following the capture of Beaumont Hamel. Capt Everitt won his MC with the A&SH and later transferred to the Tank Corps.
pistol & 2 magazines (8) & holster & stripping tool
one magazine is numbered to gun
Original Image | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Deutsche Waffen-und Munitionsfabriken, Berlin | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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