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littlehand

Posts : 7076 Join date : 2009-04-24 Age : 54 Location : Down South.
 | Subject: Shortest of revolver ammunition. Fri Sep 25, 2009 7:33 am | |
| There seems to have been plenty of rifle ammunition during the Zulu war, but a shortest of revolver ammunition, Its there any reason for this.. I would have thought as officers were issued with revolvers they would have made sure they had enough ammunition. I have read a few accounts of where officers where looking for ammunition for their weapons. Rorkes Drift was a supply depot and it seems that there was hardly any revolver ammunition available. Smith-Dorrien Memories of Forty-Eight Years Service - Quote :
- I went up to see Captain " Gonny " Bromhead, in command of the company of the 24th, and I told him a big fight was expected, and that I wanted revolver ammunition. He gave me eleven rounds
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|  | | Chelmsfordthescapegoat

Posts : 2594 Join date : 2009-04-24
 | Subject: Re: Shortest of revolver ammunition. Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:03 am | |
| I not sure that officers were issued with revolvers. If they had them, I think they would have purchased them self’s, and the ammunition. But I could be wrong.
Early models such as the Webley-Green army model 1879 and the Webley-Pryse model were first made during the 1870s. The best-known are the range of military revolvers, which were in service use across two World Wars and numerous colonial conflicts, but Webley & Scott also produced a number of short-barrel solid-frame revolvers, including the Webley RIC (Royal Irish Constabulary) the revolver was designed to be carried in a coat pocket for self-defence. |
|  | | Saul David 1879
Posts : 527 Join date : 2009-02-28
 | Subject: Re: Shortest of revolver ammunition. Fri Sep 25, 2009 1:22 pm | |
| British officers in 1879 were allowed to use any sort of sidearm he wished, as long as it fired .455 ammunition. Officers mainly owned privately purchased Webley top-break revolvers, which in 1879 had not yet officially adopted for service. |
|  | | 1879graves

Posts : 3326 Join date : 2009-03-03 Location : Devon
 | Subject: Re: Shortest of revolver ammunition. Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:39 pm | |
| I have to agree with Saul David 1879 on this one, i have read that officers could have and use whatever they wanted as long as it used .455 ammunition. |
|  | | keith4698
Posts : 36 Join date : 2009-09-29
 | Subject: Re: Shortest of revolver ammunition. Tue Sep 29, 2009 4:31 pm | |
| At this time the only weapon a officer was required to own was a sword, but of course it would have been crazy not to purchase a revolver l |
|  | | Chelmsfordthescapegoat

Posts : 2594 Join date : 2009-04-24
 | Subject: Re: Shortest of revolver ammunition. Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:39 pm | |
| Henry Evelyn Wood, V.C. I believed carried a Webley 'Bulldog. |
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