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Figure 7 The Smith & Wesson No 2 Army revolver, calibre .32 rimfire. 
also been armed, probably with a mixture of 
Deane, Adams revolver-carbines and Smith & 
Wesson revolvers. From its earliest days there has 
always been something of a question mark 
concerning the arms used by the P.M.V. A Return 
for 1870 states that 26 men were present for 
muster, but 40 men "could not parade for want of 
equipment and uniform". 38 Hall states that he 
thinks these men were armed with 1840 
Constabulary carbines. Pattern 1844 Yeomanry 
carbines and Pagets carbines converted to the 
percussion system, 39 but as yet no evidence of such 
issues has been found. Numbers of these types of 
arms exist in collections but none are marked to 
the P.M.V. except the Deane, Adams revolver- 
carbines. The Western Australian Museum holds 
two of these revolver-carbines, numbers four and 
five (W72.37 and W743 (see Figure 6). Number five 
belonged to Captain Fawcett. There is no mention 
in the archives regarding the marking of the Smith 
& Wesson pistols of 1877. This corps was 
disbanded in 1882. There is a record in the Colonial 
Secretary's Subject Register that Lt. Col. Angelo, 
the then Commandant, disposed of the P.M.V. 
arms on 28th August 1883. 40 A light cavalry sword 
with its blade etched "Pinjarrah Mounted 
Volunteers" is known in a private collection. 
The second mounted corps, the Union Troop of 
Western Australian Mounted Volunteers consisted 
of 33 men and lasted only from 1870 until 1872, 
