"If only the pistol could talk." Indeed, and what a tale it would tell.

There are logical, deductive reasons to expect that it was not selected and tuned for pistol team use. Firstly, there is the simple matter of wartime demand for pistols which would seemingly preclude holding back pistols for competitive target shooting. Remember too, that at private citizens across "the Empire" had not long before (circa 1940) handed over personal weapons for war service use. Secondly, it is unlikely in the least (more likely unimaginable) to expect that a specially selected pistol, taken from the assembly line would have what appears to be a hand stamped serial number when it would have been easier, less labour-intensive and time consuming to pantograph a serial number on it in the same way it would have been otherwise.

Sadly, we can only guess what the real story is here, and that is a story all of us would really like to hear.