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21 photos and 2 illustrations tagged pistols, from 10 members of Flickr Commons.

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• women
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• culidentifier:lunafield=idnumber
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• revolvers
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• worldwartwo
• bldigital
• pubplacelondon
• publicdomain
• vol0
• mechanicalcurator
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• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 3 photos & illustrations
• Provincial Archives of Alberta 2 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 2 photos & illustrations
• U.S. National Archives 2 photos & illustrations
• Florida Memory 2 photos & illustrations
• British Library 2 photos & illustrations
• Nationaal Archief 1 photo / illustration
• Community Archives of Belleville & Hastings County 1 photo / illustration

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"Robbery" on a mountain

from Provincial Archives of Alberta

• John McCrae said:

  luv it
  Admired in Alberta Bound

Schietsport, vrouwen met pistool / Sports, shooting. Women with pistols

from Nationaal Archief

• 21 older comments, and then…
• Arthur van Beveren said:

  Vreemde foto! :)

• Disillusioned Plate said:

  a fascinating photo

• missyleone said:

  University of Missouri (a.k.a Mizzou)? Wow, this is neat!

• John Brandi said:

  simply amazing.

• Betsy said:

  I wonder if the photographer was nervous?

Relief

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 6 older comments, and then…
• Patrick Castelli said:

  Who's who in this photo?
  Th officer (I'm going by the cut of his uniform) has Flying Corps wings above his campaign ribbons. campaign ribbons are also worn my the man to his right.
  By the look of cap badges (a harp surmounted by a crown) and the dark uniforms they might be members of the RIC . The presence of a khaki clad officer also makes me think of RIC Auxiliaries, aka Black and Tans.

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  I'm assuming he's Auxiliary - those men were recruited from ex-WWI officers including the Royal Flying Corps. Most of the others seem to be Black and Tans. So many men (mostly WWI veterans) responded to British Government appeals for recruits to bolster R.I.C. (Royal Irish Constabulary) numbers, that there was a severe shortage of uniforms. Hence the Tans mostly ended up with khaki trousers and dark tops, either R.I.C. (dark green) or British police tunics (dark blue) - and hence the nickname...

• Peter Mc said:

  For more on this attack, and some fascinating details on participants from both sides, see this link - irishconstabulary.com/topic/755/Q-Company

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Peter Mc Thank you! Absolutely fascinating, and allowed me to tag with Q Company...
  With regard to the "liquid fire" spoken of on irishconstabulary.com, the Irish Times reported that:
  "... A sinister feature of the attack was the use of gas bombs and of bottles containing a thick red-brown corrosive liquid, which gave off nauseous fumes and partially choked the police occupants of the hotel..."

• Patrick Castelli said:

  Peter Mc Very interesting, I read the account of the attack, fascinating!