WW II British Sniper Photos

[Surpmil]

One of the most poignant sniper photos I ever saw was in a book called The Road to Rome, about the advance up the backbone of Italy. Mostly pictures - but pictures that were well described. One showed a rifle buried nose down at the head of a roadside grave with helmet and ID tags attached to the butt. Obviously a hurriedly buried soldier. But the rifle was a No4T and the bodyside pads were clearly visible. Clearly the sniper had got the chop and had been hurriedly buried by his advancing pals. His rifle marking his grave.

And as I recall the rifle had a magazine cutoff as well. I wrote to the IWM about it not long after you told me about the photo Peter, and when they replied they mentioned the photographer had actually been in the Museum that very day. I forget now whether I ever got the details on the photo I requested, that must be 25 years ago.