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| rowspan="4"|''[[Red Detachment of Women, The (Hong se niang zi jun)|The Red Detachment of Women (Hong se niang zi jun)]]'' || [[Xijuan Zhu]] || Wu Qionghua || rowspan="4"| Hanyang 88 || rowspan="4"|1961
| rowspan="4"|''[[Red Detachment of Women, The (Hong se niang zi jun)|The Red Detachment of Women (Hong se niang zi jun)]]'' || [[Xijuan Zhu]] || Wu Qionghua || rowspan="4"| Hanyang 88 || rowspan="4"|1961

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Gewehr 1888 in original configuration - 7.9x57mmI Patronen-88.
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Gewehr 1888/05 - 7.92x57mm Mauser
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Turkish Gew.88/05/35 - 7.92x57mm Mauser. This is a movie armory weapon.
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Karabiner 1888 - 7.92x57mm Mauser
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Hanyang 88 - 7.92x57mm Mauser. This weapon saw service in the Sino-Japanese wars and the Chinese Civil War.

The Model 1888 Commission Rifle, best known under the German name Gewehr 88, was the German Empire's response to the French adoption of the Lebel 1886. It was designed by the German Army's Rifle Testing Commission, and combined elements of Mauser and Mannlicher rifle design. It fed from a Mannlicher-type 5-round single-column magazine loaded with an en-bloc clip. The bolt featured two opposing lugs on the front of the bolt body, with the bolt handle forming a safety lug. The barrel was covered with a tubular steel jacket that threaded onto the receiver ring, with a ladder-type rear sight. The cartridge designed for the rifle was the Gewehrpatrone-1888 7.9x57mmI, predecessor to the 7.9x57mmIS Mauser. It featured a 225gr round-nose bullet .318" in diameter.

In 1905 the German Army adopted the Gewehrpatrone-1905 with a 154gr-spitzer bullet .323" in diameter. To supplement the Gewehr 98, many Gew.88 rifles were converted to safely fire the P.05 cartridge. The magazine was modified to feed from Mauser stripper clips. These rifles were referred to as Gew.88/05.

Turkey purchased large numbers of Gew.88 rifles during the First World War. These rifles remained in service with the Turkish Republic, and many were modified during the 1930's update program. The barrel jackets were removed, and a tangent-leaf sight and wooden handguard fitted. The straight-grip stock was replaced with a pistol-gripped stock, and an M93-type bayonet lug to mount the standard Turkish bayonet. These conversions are designated Gew.88/05/35, 1935 being the first year of conversion.

An unlicensed copy of the Gew.88 was adopted by the Qing Dynasty for their Newly Created Army in 1895. This rifle was produced at the Hanyang Arsenal as Type-88 rifle, and would serve Imperial, Nationalist, and Communist forces all the way through to the end of the Chinese Civil War. In 1904 the design was modified, and the Gew.88's tubular barrel shroud and ladder-type rear sight were eliminated and a Mauser-style tangent-leaf sight and half-length handguard were substituted.


Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
The First Platoon (Pervyy vzvod) German soldiers 1933
Deserter (Dezertir) German mounted police Karabiner 88 1933
La Bandera Jean Gabin Pierre Gilieth 1935
Raymond Aimos Marcel Mulot
Legionnaires
La Grande Illusion German Prison guards and spodiers G88/05 with Seitengewehr SG 98 bayonet 1937
Forty Thousand Horsemen German and Turkish soldiers G88/05 1940
Ernst Thälmann - Son of his Class German soldiers and Communists G88/05 and Karabiner 88 1954
The Red Detachment of Women (Hong se niang zi jun) Xijuan Zhu Wu Qionghua Hanyang 88 1961
Mei Xiang Fu Honglian
Shugui Shi Dan Zhu
The local militia, Chinese Red Army
Blood Brothers (Blutsbrüder) Cheyennes Karabiner 88 1975
Severino Constantin Fugasin Blas Karabiner 88 1978
Emanoil Petrut Domingo
Manzeneros warriors and ranchers Gewehr 88, Karabiner 88
Last Emperor Kuomintang troops Hanyang 88 1987
Bavarian Outlaw Bavarian policemen Gew.88/05 2008
City of Life and Death Nationalist Chinese soldiers Hanyang 88 2009
Let the Bullets Fly Wen Jiang Pocky Zhang Hanyang 88 carbine 2010
Back to 1942 Zhao Yi Master Fan's son Hanyang 88 2010
Chinese soldiers and policemen
Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows Jude Law Dr. Watson 2011
Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes
Paul Anderson Colonel Sebastian Moran
Alexandre Carril Twin
Victor Carril Twin
Noomi Rapace Madam Simza Heron
Meinhard guards
Cold Steel (Bian di lang yan) Peter Ho Mu Liangfeng Hanyang 88 2011
Song Jia Liu Yan
Day of the Falcon (Or noir) A sultan's guard Gewehr 88/05/35 2011
1911 A resistance fighter Hanyang 88 2011
Shaolin Chinese soldiers Hanyang 88 2011
Emden Men Michael Lott Matrose Hilgert Gew.88/05 2012
Oliver Korittke Maat Kluthe
German sailors
Gallipoli: End of the Road Turkish soldiers 2013

Television

Show Title Actor Character Note / Episode Air Date
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Robert Vaughn Napoleon Solo 1964-1968
Fiery Roads (Ognennye dorogi) Ulmas Alikhodzhayev Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi Ep.15 1985
The Caravan of Sailors German sailors Gew.88/05 2006
Turksih soldiers
Clara Immerwahr French and German soldiers G88/05, Kar88, G88/05/35 2014
Hetaeras of Major Sokolov (Getery mayora Sokolova) Darya Melnikova Beshenaya Kar.88 with sniper scope 2014
Deadline Gallipoli Turkish civilian Gew.88/05, Episode 2 2015
And Quiet Flows the Don (Tikhiy Don) Austro-Hungarian soldiers 2015
Doctor Who (New Series) - Season 10 German soldiers Gew.88/05/35, Episode "Twice Upon a Time" 2017
Babylon Berlin - Season 1 Volker Bruch Gereon Rath Gew.88/05, Ep. 07 2017
German soldiers
Babylon Berlin - Season 2 Ivo Pietzcker Moritz Rath Gew.88/05 2017
Peter Kurth Bruno Wolter
Volker Bruch Gereon Rath
German soldiers
Demon of the Revolution (Demon revolyutsii) German soldiers 2017

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Notation Release Date
Battlefield: 1918 Carbine 2003
The Great War 1918 Carbine 2013
Battle of Empires : 1914-1918 "G88" 2014
World of Guns: Gun Disassembly Model 1888 commission rifle 2014
Verdun "Gewehr 88/05 Kommissionsgewehr" 2015
"Karabiner 1888"
Tannenberg "Gewehr 88/05 Kommissionsgewehr" 2019
"Karabiner 1888"

Anime

Title Character Note Date
Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shamballa Police officer Hughes 2005