Passchendaele: Difference between revisions
Passchendaele: Difference between revisions - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games
Passchendaele: Difference between revisions
[[Image:Mills Bomb SGM-1.jpg|thumb|none|200px|Mills Bomb High-Explosive Fragmentation hand grenade]]
[[Image:Mills Bomb SGM-1.jpg|thumb|none|200px|Mills Bomb High-Explosive Fragmentation hand grenade]]
[[Image:Passchendaelemillsbomb.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Sgt. Dunne prepares his Mills bomb - note that his fingers should be holding the safety lever.]]
[[Image:Passchendaelemillsbomb.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Sgt. Dunne prepares his Mills bomb - note that his fingers should be holding the safety lever.]]
==Knives==
True to life, many knives and improvised weapons are carried by Canadian troops.
[[Image:Passchendaeleknife1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Pte. Highway carries a US M1918 Trench Knife - unlikely, but not impossible as Canadian troops were notorious scroungers]]
[[Image:Passchendaeleknife2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Sgt. Dunne carries a Ross rifle bayonet cut-down into a fighting knife - very commonly used by Canadian troops.]]
Passchendaele is a 2008 World War I film that is the brainchild of director/writer/star Paul Gross. Canada's first big budget war movie effort, the film follows Canadian Sergeant Michael Dunne (Paul Gross) of the 10th Battalion CEF during the Battle Of Passchendaele and while recruiting on the home front.
The following weapons were used in the film Passchendaele:
The Webley Mk VI is carried by Canadian officers throughout the movie, although the Canadian Corps was actually issued the Smith & Wesson Mk.II Hand Ejector, and the first troops to arrive in France (which included the 10th Battalion) were issued Colt 1911s.
German soldiers throughout the Passchendaele battle carry Turkish Mauser 1903. According the movies' armorer, a supply of correct German Mauser Gewehr 1898 rifles was located for this film, but could not be imported in time and the Turkish model was substituted.
