Quote Originally Posted by Surpmil View Post
IMHO there are too many of these brackets around anyway for the purported issue to the tiny tinpot forces of some Indian Princely state to account for them. IIRC most of those states bought their own weapons privately and where would they have bought No4(T)s just after WWII??

Or does anyone believe the Britishicon Indian Army was handing such stuff out in 1946-47?
Where do you think all the British kit and weapons went when we pulled out of India in 1947?

We certainly didn't bring it all home, we left most of it there. A lot of the stuff then got passed onto the regional paramilitary later on, to replace a lot of the captured kit we got of the Italians in East Africa, that we sent to the regional paramilitary forces in 1940/1, to replace the 19th century kit they were still equipped with. A lot of the markings seen on this ex-Italian stuff that has turned up, are the same makings to be seen on ex-British issue WW2 stuff that later turned up as well.