Thanks englishman! If I do get it I would restore it to whatever is the most correct for it which is always my goal whenever I am restoring various items.

I assume you guys are mentioning magazine modifications because original 6 rounders are impossible to find?

Was the Indian Army using carbines that late? I always assumed that the first echelons such as the cavalry waiting on standby on the western front were fully equipped with the ShtLE in addition to the ANZAC cavalry and maybe only some artillery units had them. In comparison the Constabulary decided their carbines were obsolete just a few years after their last order of them (albeit after the war).

I have always been interested in the use of what American Ordnance would call substitute standard weapons in both World Wars; such as the use of carbines, long lees and Mk1's the first time around and examples like the rebuilding of trials rifles or the Home Guard using P'14s and MK Vs in World War II.

Does anyone have any recommendations for books which cover that sort of thing?
Random samplings of archival photographs are not quite the same.