The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Steyr Solothurn S1-100 Sub-machine Gun. Machined steel receiver with a top opening cover marked SS within a circle and a left hand open port for the magazine. A safety slide and magazine latch are on the left. It has a drilled barrel jacket with a bayonet lug on the right side. The wooden stock is one piece with the fore grip having a single finger groove to each side. The butt is damaged on the right side and there is a braised repair to the front underside of the action. Complete with a detachable box magazine. (See also AWM photograph 069803)
This sub-machine gun was captured by Major Kennedy, DSO during a clash between his ten ton schooner "Dadavata" and a patrol of Japanese in a whaleboat. The whaleboat was rammed and 'all the Japanese accounted for'. The incident is described in "Among Those Present", page 52.
The S1-100 (MP34) sub-machine gun was purchased in small numbers by the Japanese Army during the 1930's.
Japanese Kai-gunto sword broken in three pieces. The hilt has the standard Japanese Navy guilded brass fittings of a fushi, kabuto-gane and cherry blossom menuki under the brown handle binding over bl
Owen MK2/3 sub-machine gun. The solid trigger box frame is marked on the right side MK2/3 OWEN 9MM MK I 42 (crossed out) LYSAGHT. PK. AUSTRALIA PAT PENDING and the serial number. The top rear of the r
Beretta modello 38/42 Sub-machine Gun. Machined steel action with a fluted barrel and a wooden butt stock that has a single finger groove to each side of the fore end. The lower sling bar is inlet int
Type 100 first pattern sub-machine gun. Tubular construction with a drilled barrel jacket that has an auxiliary tube bayonet lug on the under side and a slotted muzzle compensator. The action is marke
Owen Mk 2/3 Sub-machine Gun. The trigger box has two lightening cuts to each side. The Right side is stamped MK 2/3 OWEN 9MM. MKII(crossed out) 43 on the top rail and LYSAGHT PK. AUSTRALIA PAT. PENDIN
Owen Mk 2/3 Sub-machine Gun. The trigger box has two lightening cuts to each side. The Right side is stamped MK 2/3 OWEN 9MM. MKII(crossed out) 43 on the top rail and LYSAGHT PK. AUSTRALIA PAT. PENDIN
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY. 1957-05-03. A JAPANESE SUB MACHINE GUN CAPTURED BY MAJOR D.G. KENNEDY, DSO, DURING A CLASH BETWEEN HIS 10 TON SCHOONER, "DADAVATA" AND A JAPANESE PATROL IN A WH
