Grey coloured leather automatic pistol holster with front pouch for a spare magazine
Use
For carrying a small automatic pistol on a belt with a spare magazine
Context
This holster belonged to Angus Cargill who was the chief constable of Hastings from 1942 until 1954. In 1944 he was seconded to the army and helped plan for the future policing of liberated countries and occupied Germany. He eventually organised the civil policing in the British sector of West Berlin until 1947. Unlike two other holsters he had this is not British and is of a design used by the Germans before and during the second world war. It is designed for a small automatic pistol and Cargill probably acquired it in Berlin, and it may even have originally been a Berlin Police issue holster. It is not known whether Cargill ever used it to carry a pistol but it is unlikely as a German automatic would not have been standard British Army issue and he is known to have had holsters for British revolvers.
