Originally Posted by
Gil Boyd
The British Army MUST have left thousands of Lee's in Africa as a whole, what with all the campaigns it was engaged in before WW1.
These early examples, heavily marked with some really interesting Regimental marks must be worth a few bob these days!
I know the Kenyan ones were marked Royal Kenyan Colonial Police as I saw one when I was out there in January as I visited a Tea Plantation still owned by a Brit in the hills and on her wall was a Lee with that stamped. Even the toilet door had an authentic SPECIAL BRANCH sign on it, as her father was the Deputy Police Commissioner at the time of the Mau Mau uprising.
The others in Africa are the Kings African Rifles and the Royal West African Frontier Focre and loads of others, presumably with their initials stamped on the weapons.