That means we're very near to WW1 being 100 years ago.
I knew and was friends with a couple of WW1 vets. The rifle can still shoot (and well). My friends were sadly not so immortal.
Pics of the rifle.
25 February 2011
Ninety Five Years!
My SMLE Mk III* or Rifle No. 1 Mk. 3* is 95 this year.
That means we're very near to WW1 being 100 years ago.
I knew and was friends with a couple of WW1 vets. The rifle can still shoot (and well). My friends were sadly not so immortal.
Pics of the rifle.
That means we're very near to WW1 being 100 years ago.
I knew and was friends with a couple of WW1 vets. The rifle can still shoot (and well). My friends were sadly not so immortal.
Pics of the rifle.
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My grandfather was a WWI vet. He joined the Canadian Army in 1914, got transferred to the British after kicking up too much of a fuss over the Canadians' Ross rifles*, and was dragged, kicking and screaming, into the AEF in '17, as soon as they were Over There.
ReplyDelete*He hated the Ross, and called it "Kaiser Bill's gift to the Canadian Army."
The last American WWI vet died today, at 110.
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