From: "Richard Loweth", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Churchill's Mauser C96 - purchased for him by his mother, it is said - most
likely fired the Westley Richards "All Range" bullet which was an early
expanding pistol projectile. It had an odd shape, resembling a normal
jacketed round bullet but the nose being shaped like the inverted skirt of a
.22 air pellet. In silhouette somewhat like a backward facing shuttlecock.
His book "My Early Life" gives an account of his action at Omdurman.
However one should not "hero worship" Churchill too much. He was, after all
Home Secretary at the time when the early legislation to regulate pistols
etc was being proposed (and defeated) or passed. He also committed many
blunders besides Gallipoli, most notorious the debacle of Force Z and his
disastrous Greek campaign in WWII.
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