Lee Enfield at War

[flying pig]

Interesting point, a fellow on CGN has a pistol with Avola, Sicily, July 11, 1943 carved under one of its grips. That photo kind of proves its timeline.

[Paul S.]

... Load and cock in the normal fashion but shoot off the left shoulder. ...

Then there are those of us, self included, who are naturally molly-dookers. For us, almost the entire mechanical world is built the wrong way round. For us, it was reach over the top with the right hand to cock and reach under with the right hand to load, or - dare I say it - use the left hand to load and cock and be told off because, 'It isn't "tactical" to do wrong way round'.

[5thBatt]

Canadians have never stacked arms as far as I know. I've been involved in the army since I was 17 and that's more than 40 years ago. The books never showed any such drill movement or instruction. I've looked at old books also... The #4s don't have those and the #1s had it deleted from production in some cases. It's non essential. The small wood fingers are a neat point though. Never noticed that before.

This is captioned as Canadians in London during WW2, plenty of Piling swivels here.

[browningautorifle]

Sure there are. I said it had been deleted in SOME cases. SA production and IS for a couple I think. Meaning WW2 production. I'll bet those rifles are much earlier production. My dad carried one matter of fact in Italy. I didn't say they were eliminated. Read the post.

[5thBatt]

Sure there are. I said it had been deleted in SOME cases. SA production and IS for a couple I think. Meaning WW2 production. I'll bet those rifles are much earlier production. My dad carried one matter of fact in Italy. I didn't say they were eliminated. Read the post.

Untwist them my friend, was not implying anything other than Canadians had them fitted, your post could be read to mean they did not.

[browningautorifle]

The #4s don't have those and the #1s had it deleted from production in some cases.

How would you read it that way?

Untwist what?

[Bruce_in_Oz]

Interesting selection of head-gear as well!

What is the helmet "badge" that looks vaguely like the old British Railways Logo? ( Back before the "bent hashtag" symbol and the Blue and "Off-White" livery.)

[Paul S.]

The shoulder flash appears to be the right shading to be a red flash. Doing a little research, 1st Canadian Div wore a red triangle. The 48th Highlanders had a falcon head on their capbadge and the Hastings and Prince Edward Regt. had a stag head on their capbadge. It's too low resolution to tell which it may be. Both battalions were part of 1 Can's 1st Brigade.

There used to be a really good reference website for WWI and WWII Canadian Army history, but it seems to have vanished. 'Wiki' is decent though - 1st Canadian Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[browningautorifle]

I think it's the 48th, as they used the collar badge as the helmet badge. The shoulder titles look right too...

[Paul S.]

Agreed.