Battle Damaged Enfields?

[Badger]

In the process of gathering photo montages and background information of an upcoming Knowledge Library article about Enfield Rifles (any genre and period) which have suffered obvious "battle damage" when being carried by their owners.

Here's what we have so far, scattered amongst various threads and independent articles …

SMLE hit by AP round !! (by Peter Laidler)

Friday 13th SMLE sniper damage (by Kev G)

Exploding P14 Grenade Discharger Cups (by Peter Laidler)

1912 No.1 MkIII Enfield Rifle (Battle Damaged) (by terryinvictoria)

Peter Laidler mentioned he might have some additional information or pics from his archives which would be great !!!

So, if any other members have additional pics or historical data that could be added to these, please let us know, as I think it could make for an excellent stand alone Knowledge Library article.

Thanks ..

Regards,
Badger

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[spinecracker]

I'll ask some of my local gunshops for photos - every time they try and sell me a Lee Enfield, they describe every little dent and blemish as "battle damage" - sheesh!!

Joking aside, thanks for putting this information together.

[Badger]

....... every time they try and sell me a Lee Enfield, they describe every little dent and blemish as "battle damage" - sheesh!!

... and they also tell you that the little straight vertical hash marks on any sniper rifle are the number of "kills" ...

Thanks ...

Regards,
Badger

[spinecracker]

And they seem to think that "battle damage" somehow INCREASES the value of the rifle....

[JBS]

Yep, and this here big dent is from where Fred fell over the stacked rifles out side the USO tent one night. See,,, them is real teeth marks.

[Peter Laidler]

We've got about 8 or 10 of these variously battle damaged rifles at Warminster. I'll see if I can't get a series of decent photos of them..........

[jmoore]

All I have is a nosecap and part of a fore stock, but it's kind of scary looking. Will try and find it and shoot a photo or two if you want.

[Badger]

Here's an article from Gun Digest 1990 44th Annual Edition, graciously scanned and emailed to us by member Brno8x57 (click here). Thanks George ...

It provides additional background to the pics of a battle damaged rifle stored at Warminister, depicted in Peter Laidler's article:

SMLE hit by AP round !! (by Peter Laidler)

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Regards,
Badger

[Warren]

here's another one for the collection: AND it has Canadian content....handpicked from the mud at Vimy.
I have thought of removing the mud and rust off the bayonet boss to see if I can find the serial number or see if the guys in the forensics lab could lift a number for me but think it might be too far gone.

[Brit plumber]

Not so much battle damaged but they are off the battle field

relic weapons of ww1 and ww2