{"id":101007,"date":"2026-07-11T02:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T06:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=101007"},"modified":"2026-07-10T15:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:04:09","slug":"winston-churchills-personal-patchett-sterling-submachine-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/07\/11\/winston-churchills-personal-patchett-sterling-submachine-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Winston Churchill\u2019s Personal Patchett\/Sterling Submachine Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sd5a6unFR8s?si=ACEfPmQ_M2L2BZL0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Royal Armouries<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 4 Feb 2026<\/p>\n<p>This episode of &#8220;What Is This Weapon?&#8221; Jonathan examines a seemingly ordinary Sterling\/Patchett submachine gun that turns out to be anything but.<\/p>\n<p>This is a rare opportunity to examine a historically significant firearm that was owned and more than likely, used by Britain&#8217;s wartime Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Intro<br \/>\n1:55 The Hidden Plaque &#038; Churchill Connection<br \/>\n3:36 Provenance: Churchill&#8217;s Firearm Certificate<br \/>\n5:58 Not a Wall Hanger: Ammunition &#038; Use<br \/>\n6:05 Patchett vs Sterling: Design Differences<br \/>\n10:43 Churchill, Firearms &#038; Wartime Image<br \/>\n14:49 Legacy &#038; Back Next Week for Another Archive Film<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u2694Website: https:\/\/royalarmouries.org\/home<br \/>\n\u2694Blog: https:\/\/royalarmouries.org\/stories\/<br \/>\n\u2694Twitter:   \/ royal_armouries<br \/>\n\u2694 Instagram:   \/ royalarmouriesmuseum  <\/p>\n<p>We are the Royal Armouries, the United Kingdom&#8217;s national collection of arms and armour. Discover what goes on behind the scenes and watch our collection come to life. See combat demonstrations, experience jousting and meet our experts. <\/p>\n<p>Have a question about arms and armour? Feel free to leave us a comment and we&#8217;ll do our best to answer it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Armouries Published 4 Feb 2026 This episode of &#8220;What Is This Weapon?&#8221; Jonathan examines a seemingly ordinary Sterling\/Patchett submachine gun that turns out to be anything but. This is a rare opportunity to examine a historically significant firearm that was owned and more than likely, used by Britain&#8217;s wartime Prime Minister. 0:00 Intro 1:55 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,7,5,663],"tags":[108,49,1298,1264,864],"class_list":["post-101007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-military","category-weapons","tag-coldwar","tag-guns","tag-museum","tag-submachineguns","tag-winstonchurchill"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qh9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101007"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103558,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101007\/revisions\/103558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}