Enfield No 5/Mk1 “Jungle Carbine” cleaning kit silly question.....

[82Trooper]

So if i was carrying one of these in WWII...where would I carry my cleaning kit?
With no storage in the butt stock....what was "typical"?

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[Daan Kemp]

Pocket or pack. One of the ammo pouches.

'Cleaning kit' in the butt was actually just the pull-through and oil bottle. Small enough to fit anywhere.

[Peter Laidler]

The cleaning kit was in a little flat tin, like a tobacco tin. In fact the cleaning kit tin was based on the flat useful shape of a tobacco tin that most smokers carried - and made on the same tooling presses by the same companies, but painted khaki

[browningautorifle]

Also contained a small bristle brush and pullthrough flannels, wire gauze...

[Mk VII]

The same box survived as a container for SLR and SMG cleaning kits. By the 1980s plastic ones were being procured.

[82Trooper]

Thank you all!

[boristhepig]

Picture of tin contents

[browningautorifle]

There you go...not bad for off the top of my head...except the bore brush. Guess they didn't really exist then.

[82Trooper]

Perfect...thanks for the reference....

[82Trooper]

one more follow up question....would it be appropriate for the tin cleaning kit to have a brass oiler bottle....or would they have had the plastic one like in the photo above?