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I have a friend in Europe whom is looking for cleaning kit, spare baffles that came in a canvas bag, and spare magazine for his replica welrod mk11A. Anyone got some hints where to start?
 
Hmmmmm... your friend must be Swedish or from some place that allows silencers.
Ain't no such stuff around here, you know...
Funny that you ask for this very specialized thing on your very first ever post...
PP. :stirthepot2:
 
Funny you should wonder why I ask this in my first ever post. Haven't been on this site since I joined. Just trying to help a friend in a country that does not appreciate the value of militaria. You can't erase history. I hope you aren't one of those site critics, cuz ...........:50cal:
 
1. These were never on general issue here in Canada.

2. These were specialist/resistance weapons in europe (mostly)

3. They were rumored to be so effective that they have only recently been struck from service (read somewhere...might be mixing this up with a report on the Delisle)

4. Your friend is actually better off asking in Europe, as there were many supposedly airdropped into the continent during the war.

Good luck, and welcome to the board....

NS
 
I know of one of these drop zones.
My mother (she was 19 at that time) was participating in a nighttime resupply airdrop for their local resistance group in the SouthWest Pyrénées mountains and the windy conditions that night did not permit to retrieve all the containers. Some were blown away and fell on a very treacherous part of the mountain.
They had enough anyway and the drop was successful. No one ever tried to go and retrieve the lost tubes.
To this day, I think the sealed tubes are still there, hidden among the rocks and twigs.
Maybe there were some Welrods or Stens in these... :)
We still have a down bed "couette" made with the yellow silk of one of the chutes.
PP.
 
More info for the Welrod-challenged group:
First brought into service during World War 2, this British-designed bolt-action weapon is still in the Regiment's armoury and has been taken to war at least as recently as the 1991 Gulf War.

The Welrod is a single-shot weapon which requires the operator to manually cycle the rounds via bolt action. Magazine capacity is 5 9mm (in the Mk1) or .32 ACP (Mk2) rounds. Due to its mechanical simplicity and integrated suppressor, the Welrod is extremely quiet when fired - perhaps the quietest pistol ever produced. Effective range is short, however.

The Welrod was designed for British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents for use at extreme close quarters e.g. assassinations. It most likely has a similar role within the Regiment as well as more traditional military uses such as neutralising sentries. At least one Welrod was taken by SAS Land Rover columns into Iraq during Desert Storm with such a use in mind.
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PerversPépère said:
I know of one of these drop zones.
My mother (she was 19 at that time) was participating in a nighttime resupply airdrop for their local resistance group in the SouthWest Pyrénées mountains and the windy conditions that night did not permit to retrieve all the containers. Some were blown away and fell on a very treacherous part of the mountain.
They had enough anyway and the drop was successful. No one ever tried to go and retrieve the lost tubes.
To this day, I think the sealed tubes are still there, hidden among the rocks and twigs.
Maybe there were some Welrods or Stens in these... :)
We still have a down bed "couette" made with the yellow silk of one of the chutes.
PP.
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Field trip! Seriously.
 
Hey gang, thanks for your insites, glad I asked the question here. You are right maybe he's better off finding parts in Europe. As for all the drops somewhere in Scandinavia I bet there's a collectors gold mine waiting to be found. Can't wait to retire and go exploring.
 
Uncle Louis

H Wally said:
Field trip! Seriously.
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My uncle Louis was there too and he paid us a visit last summer to see his sister. He's 82, still very alive and kicking! The morning after his arrival, he was already telling me about his last wildboar hunt!
I'm compiling all the memories my mother and him exchanged about the years under the German boot and all the tricks they had to resort to to make a living, all the jewish refugees (the Kagansky and Trokiner families among others) they shipped to Spain and Gibraltar through the resistance and all the very special characters that passed by the family hotel, many of them being sent by the allies' intelligence services: Michel Tchaoutcheff aka Moké aka Colonel Skeene and his lovely wife Lucette Serss alias Comtesse de Marty, the Dominican Père Steve, an officer from the French Chiffre, the white russian General Shatiloff and many other.
It's like a movie scenario, only a true story with real people.

The drop zone I'm talking about is in the mountains over Arbeost, in a small high altitude prairie within a pass named Jaoüt. Every summer, the sheep herders bring their flocks up there to feast on the mountain flowers and it makes the best cheese you can get.
But no one dares to go on the side where the parachutes were lost because it is too risky for the sheep. My uncle knows the place very well.
Here's a link to some pics:
http://www.hahd.fr/media/usrPics/201_big.jpg
http://www.skisylvio.com/spots/2006/fevrier/moulledejaout/9pre.jpg
 
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