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Thread: Show us your Lee Enfield
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08-02-2018, 09:56 #191
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09-02-2018, 10:35 #192
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Re: Show us your Lee Enfield
Lovely rifle Morte
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09-02-2018, 10:44 #193
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I really like the No1 MkIII.
I'm up for correction but were we (South African forces) equipped with them - at least initially - if not for the duration of the war? I have a No4 MkI but when I was growing up reading Commando comics, all the South African troops had "flat nose" (i.e. No1 MkIII) as I called them at the time, Lee-Enfields.
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09-02-2018, 16:22 #194
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According to a document in the S.A. Military Archives dated 31.07.1945, South Africa then possessed 31,577 No.4 Mk.I Rifles of which only 119 were on issue to units with the balance in storage. A later document indicates that the No.4 was only declared standard issue in early November, 1945. It would thus seem that the No.4 saw extremely limited service with the South African forces during the Second World War.
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09-02-2018, 16:44 #195
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It’s very confusing. All of the pics I have see on the 6th in Italy has them carrying No4 rifles. James Bourhills book on the 6th states the troops were quite chuffed with their new rifles, referring to the No4’s.
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09-02-2018, 18:14 #196
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Well then I'm also confused. Perhaps, they were issued for the Italian campaign but not being standard issue were later recalled? I found nothing in the archives that explains this matter.
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09-02-2018, 18:22 #197
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Re: Show us your Lee Enfield
Perhaps lend lease?
Don’t take life too seriously, no one gets out alive.
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09-02-2018, 18:29 #198
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I do know the ANZ troops all carried No1Mkiii rifles in Italy. From what
I have read the UDF troops got issued the No4’s on training in Egypt before going to Italy. So they might not have been UDF rifles.Don’t take life too seriously, no one gets out alive.
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09-02-2018, 22:00 #199
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What a beauty!
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