Irish Navy Lee Enfield, Mk1, 1976!

[Bruce_in_Oz]

Must be close to a record time in service.

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[browningautorifle]

I'd love to have been there when they were searching for a place to dispose of it. I'd have followed right to Crown Assets...to bid on it.

[Peter Laidler]

Off tack skightly here........ But a TV programme here a few evenings ago on the opening of the first Forth Bridge road crossing in 1965. The Army Guard of honour had L1A1's while the Navy and RAF had No4's.

[browningautorifle]

Remember Peter, nothing is too good for the army...NOTHING...

[Peter Laidler]

I have to say that marching with an L1A1 at shoulder arms was far better and comfortable than marching with a No4 at slope arms. It didn't take long before your left arm began to sag and droop. All you really had to worry about when we changed to L1A1's was to keep the right thumb in line with the seam of your trousers - or strides as we called them in Oz! But whatever...., you still got shouted at regardless!

[browningautorifle]

you still got shouted at regardless!

Naturally...pull the neck back against the collar...bends out of the elbows...march on the heels...keep the rifles still by the side...Juff-Wite-Juff....(Guards)...

[Peter Laidler]

And another of these drill orders that you just have to live with...... Another Guards offering, was 'SQUAD.... wait for it............. Juffffffffff TURNUP' Which I hurriedly learned was '...Will the squad kindly, when I call it, and not a second before, please turn to the right.

[browningautorifle]

We had a few of the Pirbright marvels around..."Dig-em-in!"