The gun and a homemade grenade are being unveiled at the Imperial War Museum to mark the 90th anniversary of the end of a war which claimed 21 million lives.
The Archduke's assassination in Sarajevo in June 1914 started a domino effect of allied nation disputes which led to the First World War.
Other pieces in the In Memoriam: Remembering the Great War exhibition include the Victoria Cross awarded to poet and soldier Wilfred Owen and a wreath tossed into the carriage carrying Prime Minister Lloyd George after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
Here's a picture of the pistol, a Browning 1910 in .380ACP, according to Wikipedia:
Also, this is the first I've heard that Wilfred Owen received the Victoria Cross. I think that is in error; Owen received the Military Cross posthumously, according to Wikipedia and other biographies I've read.
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