Lady Luck smiled briefly upon me today, as an older acquaintance of mine who was cleaning up his basement chanced upon 5 sealed cardboard boxes of .303 ammunition, which he gave to me (he also gave me an all-matching 1945 dated LB No. 4 Mk1* to go with the ammo...but I'm not going to gloat about that).

Anyhow - back to the ammunition question - I am photographically challenged, but the makings on the boxes are as follows:

L-1206C-D.I.
48
Cartridges
.303 Inch
D.I. Mk VIIz
I.G. Canadaicon

The boxes do not have a date or a "C Broad Arrow" marked on them.

Given that the boxes are all sealed, I'm not immediately keen to open one up to look at the headstamps, so I'm trying to figure out what's in there and where it's from just by the box markings. A quick internet search didn't turn up anything on "I.G. Canada" that would relate to ammunition. I am similarly unclear about what the "D.I." might mean...."Dominion Industries" in Verdun, Quebec ? Or does it signify drill rounds?

Any insights would be greatly appreciated...
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