Quote Originally Posted by GeeRam View Post
I would speculate that this was a post service civilian conversion given the OP mentioned it has South African ordnance broad arrow mark from when it was a No.4.
That only proves that they had it from new or at some point in time before Malaya. Did SA have the same issue with the No5 and convert No4s to No5s. Need a SA armourer from that time period.