Earlier this year

I bought a Number 1 and a number 5 from my local gun shop. The No. I is an LSA 1915 and has been FTR'D before. It still has a brass stock disc that I haven't been able to identify:

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo.../SHTLE_9-1.jpg

I think it means the 56th (London) Infantry Brigade but I find it somewhat strange if it has been FRT'D why would the disc still be there?

Here are a few other photos:

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo.../SHTLE_8-1.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...SHTLE_10-1.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo.../SHTLE_6-1.jpg

and here's the No. 5:

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...JUNGLE_8-1.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...UNGLE_16-1.jpg

The disc could have been installed by a previous owner who didn't like the looks of the empty hole.

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Originally Posted by Steve H. in N.Y.

The disc could have been installed by a previous owner who didn't like the looks of the empty hole.

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No chance of that IMO with the way the patina and wear to the disk perfectly matches the angle it sits in the wood.

Probably that rifle was held in dying hands at least once in its life.

I would assume that it was not taken to France by one of the battalions that made up the 56th I.B., but rather was issued later. And I am guessing that battlefield salvage and repair and re-issue was on a brigade level, which is why it would be marked as such.

Just to confuse the issue, is not the fore stock wood rather "Australian" looking?

Whether or not the marking disc is original to the buttstock, one must ask how high is the likelihood that the buttstock is original to the rifle, esp. an "FTR". It's possible...

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Originally Posted by jmoore

Just to confuse the issue, is not the fore stock wood rather "Australian" looking?

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Yes, a replacement inletted for the cutt-off. "Slaz"?