I believe the P1907 bayonet was not sharpened in service so I think you'd have a hell of a job trying to take a hand off. I was also under the impression that bayonet training involved thrusting with the point of the bayonet, parrying and clubbing with the butt


The No.4 rifle doesn't really appear to have been issued in great numbers to active theatres of war until D-Day from the photographic evidence I have seen. Apart from Orde Wingate, does anyone have any photos of the forgotten 14th Army, armed with No.4's?