bolt action centre-fire rifle
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19770467-133
- Event 1939-1945 Second World War
- Affiliation --
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Artist / Maker / Manufacturer
Small Arms Limited
Research Enterprises Limited - Date Made 1945
- Category Tools and equipment for science and technology
- Sub-category Armament, firearm
- Department Arms and Technology
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1945/01/01
- Latest 1945/12/31
- Brand Name / Model No. 4 Mk. 1* (T)
- Inscription on scope: Telsig C No. 32 Mk2 CoS 2039A R.E.L. Canada 189-C (broad arrow). On rifle: 90L8141 No.4 Mk I * T Lonbranch 1945
- Pattern Name Lee-Enfield
- Materials Steel, Wood
- Service Component Canadian Army
- Measurements Height 6.5 cm, Length 112.0 cm, Width 16.0 cm
- Related activity Sniper
- Caption Sniper Rifle, Lee-Enfield No. 4, Mk. I* (T)
- Additional Information War artist Edward (Ted) Zuber was also a sniper with five confirmed kills. "I somehow grasped that the sniper section was the only place in the infantry where I could work as an individual."