Image From Historical Firearms : Stanley Llewellyn Wood’s painting of Lieutenant Young, 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Cambridge’s Own Middlesex Regiment [now part of the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment (Queen’s and Royal Hampshires)], winning his Military Cross during the Battle of the Somme. Young and his platoon stormed a section of German trench, during which Young directed his mens grenades and shot several Germans with his revolver. He was wounded several times that day. He was later promoted to Captain but died after the war in February 1919.
The big .455 Webley was a prestigious man-stopper and, though supplemented and officially replaced by the .38/200 Enfield and Webley revolvers and the Browning-Inglis Hi Power in the 1930s and 40s respectively, they still soldiered on in the Old Empire for generations. An elegant weapon for a more civilized age so to speak.
Like trench warfare on the Western Front.
J.R.R. Tolkien’s personal Webley MK VI, chambered in .455 Tolkien served opposite from German corporal Adolf Hitler in the same lines at one point in WWI.
It was all a part of gentleman’s loadout for service on the Continent with the BEF in the Great War.
World War I British officer’s tunic and Sam Browne belt with attachments And a Pattern 1897 Infantry Officer’s Sword, the hilt decorated with the GRV cypher for George V.
