Quote Originally Posted by 5thBatt View Post
Don't see to many of the SMLEs here with the numbers, most seem to have been ground off (if they were there) for the sale mark.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...morefun3-1.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo.../01/SSA5-1.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...9/17BSA6-1.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...1/18BSA6-1.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...9/18EFD4-1.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...rreldate-1.jpg
That's a fine collection of rifles... (I have been looking for other SMLE's with NZ makings and came up with nothing....than along they come like buses!! do they all belong to you, you lucky man!
Tell me, did NZ buy many No1's from Lithgowicon in WW1, or were the Enfield's and BSA's bought while in the European Theatre of operations?

I wonder how many survive with intact rack numbers today....I guess mine fell off the back of a lorry and never got taken home.

Curious thing is, it has no markings dating post WW1, so it escaped WW2 service !

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Quote Originally Posted by ssj View Post
Hi,

the reply I have is,

"Good Afternoon.

xxxxx has passed your Enquiry to me regarding NZ marked Enfield Serial numbers.

Unfortunately there are no such records left. They were destroyed long ago by NZDF."
Many thanks indeed for looking into that for me, it really was very kind, looks like the infos lost forever then!

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Quote Originally Posted by Roy View Post
MrClark it looks like you may have a fell off the back of the lorry NZ rifle. maybe even lost during or immediately post WW1 when NZ forces were in Blighty . I see the barrel is a '16 too. does she have an I'd disc?
No ID disk on mine, shes a typical 1917 production example, she has the transitional forend with the volley sight "dish", the earlier magazine well with sling swivel provision and a wooden blank where the butt disk would normally be situated.

The nicest thing about this rifle is its a real time capsule, undisturbed since WW1 as far as I can tell.
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