Australian Marked Luger

GerColctor · 04-03-2025, 05:27 PM

Could have been captured early during Gallipoli campaign in Turkey or in later in France. The British Empire shipped a lot of captured German rifles and pistols to other member nations of the Commonwealth after the Great War. Have seen a few Lugers issued and marked to the Royal Irish Constabulary. Number of photos of the IRA in the late 20th Century teens and into the 20s carrying Lugers, which were obviously not freely given to them by the English government.

04-03-2025, 05:27 PM	#1
GerColctor User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: CT & FL Posts: 315 Thanks: 2 Thanked 48 Times in 31 Posts	Could have been captured early during Gallipoli campaign in Turkey or in later in France. The British Empire shipped a lot of captured German rifles and pistols to other member nations of the Commonwealth after the Great War. Have seen a few Lugers issued and marked to the Royal Irish Constabulary. Number of photos of the IRA in the late 20th Century teens and into the 20s carrying Lugers, which were obviously not freely given to them by the English government. __________________ It is better to have lived a day as a tiger, then a thousand years as a lamb.

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