On a similar vein, has anyone ever seen an Australianicon L1A1 bayonet with a clearance hole in the pommel - similar to that in the old SMLE bayonet. It seems as though several were obviously trialled at Maribiyong(? spelling....) in Oz and came over here but nothing ever became of them. I have a feeling in my bones that they were as a result of GULF 1 or as we call it now 'ar5e kicking in Kuwait' as a means of diplacing sand that prevented them being fixed. But I could be wrong as the L1A1 only had a few more years of life left by then and further trials and test were pretty well academic. Like milsurp in Oz, I'll get a pic of the one at Warminster when I next go back
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