The No. 4 rifle, commonly known as the No. 4 Lee-Enfield, was the standard British service rifle of World War II. Even though the design was officially adopted in 1940, the British were able to ...

The Mauser was an effective weapon, although technically obsolete, firing a larger bullet than the British Lee-Enfield. However, for the volunteers many of whom had never fired the rifle before ...

Jay Hawkins/Lee-Enfield Rifle Project Joe Randall risked all to rescue an important box of supplies from a crashed Spitfire He said the "most British story of all" came from RAF veteran Joe ...

In 1915 they made nearly 250,000 rifles for the British Army and some 300,000 muskets for Russian troops. After April 1917, when the U.S. joined the fight, the Model 1917 Enfield would become the ...

Following a trend that had begun with the British Army's Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE), which proved better suited to the trench warfare of World War I than the longer rifles of the era ...