Just reading the about the "King William College" KWC marking on another thread and brought to mind my old school and all the rifles the kids used to run around with on a thursday afternoon. In Englandicon in the post war years, many "secondary" (high) schools had a corps, (cadet force). Ours had quite an armoury including Enfields, Brens and Stens.
I remember well a master, "Praggy", using a SMLE in one arm as a starting pistol on sports day. Certainly got you moving!.

Anyway, I just wondered how many of these "School" rifles had specific markings applied as I saw a No4 for sale recently that had my old school initials as the prefix to the serial number and it made me wonder if there was any connection.
Did they belong to the Ministry of Defence or the School?. (out of service or in service?).
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