My Lithgow 1918 ShtLe * Lee Enfield.

[GhostRider]

G'day Guys and galls,

New to this forum and my first post. Just wanted to show you my pride and joy. She is an old girl with battle dings and scratches but still shoots like a dream, hopefully these pictures will go up. Was wondering if anyone could tell me anything about my old girl and whether I should renovate it or keep as is and keep in the state she still is in? oh and the other day I took of the wooden parts to have a look for more identifiers i noticed a 5 on the bottom of the lower handguard and I took off the rear swivel point for the sling and there was some red/black stain, hopefully its not what I think it is :/. But if you have any info please share )
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[browningautorifle]

I don't think you need to do anything to this one...it looks fine. I'm glad you're showing us the rifle too. There'll be several will come along shortly to read the markings. I know most but they'll know them all. The only one that worries me is the S on the barrel ring, but I'll wait for Peter Laidler or Tankie or those to come forward with an opinion...

[GhostRider]

Thanks for that!!! I think the 5 under the hand guard means the 5th military district which by memory I think it would be Western Australia. But the Barrel has been marked 1950, could it be possible that this rifle could have served WW1, WW2 and Korea?

[GhostRider]

But what would a Slazenger mark be doing on an Australian rifle?

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I think the one on the stock was the sold out of service mark as same on the barrel, I will try and get a picture of the five thats under the hand guard in the morning. Would you be able to value the rifle at all?

[Peter Laidler]

The Arrow-S-arrow on the breeching up ring is the Government Sale mark. I just assume that the S at the bottom of the stock fore-end is a Slazenger mark

[Peter Laidler]

Ooooops, I thought that you were referring to the S or 5 as in photo 3.

[browningautorifle]

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photo 3

I was...now I know for sure what it means. I thought it was something like that because of the two arrows facing each other. I'd never seen anything between them.

[GhostRider]

This is also etched into the Rifle but stock

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[spentprimer]

That is a nice looking rifle!

[Peter Laidler]

You asked what a Slazenger mark would mean on a Lithgow rifle made in Australia............? Somebody in Australia better break the news!

Tha latter mark is a repair mark of 9/44