The Old and the Bold: Short Magazine Lee Enfield Rifle

Apart from German Mauser repeaters, the British “Long” Lee-Enfield and Lee-Metford (here a Sparksbrook Mk II) taken from British troops (above) are the firearms most often seen in photographs of groups of Boers.

Norman Mitchell, 93, served for 18 years with the Grenadier Guards. Here he talks about the Short Magazine Lee Enfield Rifle (SMLE). ‘The Old and the Bold’ is just one of the community projects being run by the National Army Museum as part of its ‘Building for the Future’ redevelopment project.

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