Need ID help - this is a strange one

[klaus 3338]

I forgot to mention that the former Dreyse holster was issued to mounted "people".

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by klaus 3338

I forgot to mention that the former Dreyse holster was issued to mounted "people".

... ??? ... Klaus, that is a curious comment...What or who exactly were the 'mounted people'???

Cavalry??? Supply train 'people'??? Artillery???

A quick look in my library simply says 'issued to special [WW I German] troops'...

Edit 1: Hogg's German Handguns says it was issued 'primarily to staff officers and rear area troops'...

Edit 2: Wilson's Textbook of Automatic Pistols [pub 1934] simply refers to it as made before 'the Great War'...