"Sidearms carried by British Medical staff?" Topic

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piper909

16 Dec 2025 10:03 p.m. PST

I'm exploring on behalf of some Sherlock Holmes aficionados what Doctor James Watson, Army Hospital Corps, might have been equipped with at the Battle of Maiwand, 1880. (According to the Arthur Conan Doyle canon.) The foreign service uniform for the time is relatively easy to reconstruct -- but one detail that eludes me is whether or not medical personnel would have carried any sidearms at all, for personal protection; or as noncombatants, they were entirely unarmed? This has some bearing in the Holmes stories when things like Watson's "service revolver" are mentioned. It would be interesting to clarify this if possible -- anyone here have any insights?

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