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revolver / Mallow Military Barracks, 1920

A revolver captured at Mallow Military Barracks, 1920. American Smith & Wesson 6-shot .45 calibre revolver, seemingly an earlier model than that of 1917 - the barrel is longer than the 1917 model. Solid frame with swingout cylinder. On circular brass plates on butt and again on frame monogram of...

 

photograph / Mallow, January 1921

Photograph of a street in Mallow, dated 9 January 1921. Photograph shows three shop buildings destroyed by fire set by Black and Tan troops as a reprisal for the taking of Mallow Barracks on 28 September previously, and the tin huts erected in their place, where business was carried on. 7.75...