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[Alan de Enfield]

Apart from the 'obvious' - Football Association - can anyone suggest where this rifle may have spent its time ?

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[Beerhunter]

"Something" Academy? A school Officer Training Corps, Junior Division. (Called the CCF since 1948).

[Peter Laidler]

I doubt whether FA would be an Army abbreviation of any sort due to its services connotation with the phrase that indicates '......very little'. In much the same way as PDQ indicates to anyone in the services that they really ought to get a move on - or PDFQ if a little more haste and speed is required!

[jrhead75]

India. Issued out of Ferozpore Arsenal...October of 1936.

[Alan de Enfield]

India. Issued out of Ferozpore Arsenal...October of 1936.

Superb - many thanks I'll pass the info onto its owner.

[Surpmil]

Might as well try to ID to the "26"(?) "P.R." at the same time. An Indian regiment?

[Alan de Enfield]

Might as well try to ID to the "26"(?) "P.R." at the same time. An Indian regiment?

You have better eyes than I.

[Surpmil]

You have better eyes than I.

Perhaps just a bit younger?

There is something between the 2 and the 6, but can't make it out. A larger, sharper photo would help.

I see there was a 26th Punjab Regiment at some point: 26th Punjabis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[jrhead75]

There was (is?) a "56th Punjab Rifles, as well as a Punjabi Regiment...a couple of possibilities. Ferozepore is a city and district in Punjab...so that would seem to fit.

[Alan de Enfield]

Thanks guys - I'll ask him to see if he can get a sharper pic of the XXX area.