SMLE slings - WW1 sniper use

[desperatedan]

From a discussion elsewhere a question arose about sling mounting on SMLEs by snipers/marksmen. A Museum of NZ picture from Gallipoli shows an ANZAC sniper with the sling mounted on the piling swivel and I also found another from the AWM showing similar fitment.

It's clearly a web sling in the first picture and in the second one it's not fitted to a swivel at the front of the magazine (which I don't think were ever fitted on an SMLE in WW1 in any case).

Does anyone have examples of how these slings were fitted at the rear or used, and presumably they would have had to have been longer than standard to be of any use if attached to the rear swivel?

Thanks

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