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    A .455 Eley Colt New Service Revolver with a bit of Provenance...

    Today I bought at auction, a match holstered Colt New Service revolver in .455 Eley. Serial number: 76***
    On the back strap was stamped the original owner's name: Lieut. D.E.S. Wishart. With it also came a hand written letter stating that the gun was carried by Dr. D.E. Staunton Wishart of the Royal Canadianicon Army Medical Corps in World War I. In 1919 he carried it into Macedonia, when as the letter puts it: "The Turks were massacring the Macedonians."
    Further online research tonight went on to find out that he participated in the retreat from Servia in Oct./ Nov. of 1915 and at that time was the rank of Captain.
    After his military career he went on to work at the Toronto Sick Childrens Hospital and was the President of the American Otological Society for sometime.
    His family lived in Madoc, Ontario and was the son of Dr. (also a Lt. Colonel) David James Gibb Wishart and Mrs. Sarah Staunton. He had two other siblings.
    If my hasty research is correct Dr. Staunton Wishart lived from 1889 to his passing in 1958, with a great number of accomplishments in his field of medicine.
    If anyone can collaborate or add to the military or civilian history of this gentleman or this revolver and post it here, it would be greatly appreciated. I will try and post pictures later this week.
    Thanks for reading this dribble & my spelling sucks -Dances
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    Mine is marked to 2nd Lt J.P. Spowart, Royal Engineers, though not quite as neat, as he scratched that on the sideplate. He did survive the war.

    Condition about the same, so carried more than used.

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