It just so happens that then Lt. Col. Currie was something of a marksmanship expert. He was a very diligent student of military matters generally and the BCRA had a number of prominent members other...
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It just so happens that then Lt. Col. Currie was something of a marksmanship expert. He was a very diligent student of military matters generally and the BCRA had a number of prominent members other...
Good finds; I didn't spend too long looking this morning.
Too bad they've got their website coding set to block links to individual photos, but screenshots never fail. ;)
It's an amazing record...
The 15th Battalion has a very unusual photographic record of the early years in France, but no sign of Mk.II rifles that I noticed. Some "acquired" SMLE's showing up ever before St. Julien though.
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Most likely. The rifles were used for training in Canada before being sold to the USA later in the war..
As mentioned previously, there is a MkII in a museum in Calgary that had a Winchester A5 scope fitted at some point. The provenance given is that it was used by Henry Norwest in France; it certainly...
Not officially.