Lee enfield biography
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Lee-Enfield
Country of origin
British Empire
Number built
17,000,000+ (as of 1993)
Length
- 1260 mm (Lee-Enfield Mk.1)
- 1132 mm (SMLE No.1 Mk.3)
- 1129 mm (SMLE No.4 Mk.1)
- 1003 mm (SMLE No.5 Jungle Carbine)
Barrel length
- 767 mm (Lee-Enfield Mk.1)
- 640 mm (SMLE No.1 Mk.3)
- 640 mm (SMLE No.4 Mk.1)
- 478 mm (SMLE No.5 Jungle Carbine)
Weight
- 4.19 kg (Lee-Enfield Mk.1)
- 3.96 kg (SMLE No.1 Mk.3)
- 4.11 kg (SMLE No.4 Mk.1)
- 3.24 kg (SMLE No.5 Jungle Carbine)
Feed system
10 round detachable magazine, reloaded with 5-round stripper clips
Cyclic rate
Depending on user / 700rpm (Automatic variants)
Other name(s)
"Smelly" (colloquial)
The Lee-Enfield was a series of British bolt-action rifles that served as the standard British rifle over the 20th century. The Lee-Enfield was born in 1895 as a marriage between the James Paris Lee designed magazine and bolt action, and Enfield pattern rifling. Lee-Enfields and its variants served Britain and the Bri
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The Lee-Enfield Bolt Action Rifle
By Christopher Miskimon
A small party of about 40 German soldiers had infiltrated the Australian lines around the besieged town of Tobruk, Libya, during the night of April 13, 1941. They began setting up a half dozen machine guns, several mortars, and even a pair of small infantry guns laboriously dragged through the desert sands. It was a foothold the Germans could use to expand into the perimeter and capture the town. They began firing at the nearest Australian unit, B Company of the 2-17 Infantry Battalion. The Aussies replied with rifles and machine guns, but it was tough going. A party consisting of Lieu- tenant Austin Mackell and five pri- vates, along with Corporal John Hurst Edmondson, decided to mount a counterattack to drive the Germans back.
The men clutched their bayoneted Lee-Enfield Rifles tightly and moved into the darkness, attacking the enemy fiercely despite the machinegun fire thrown at them. Edmondson was hit twice but conti
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Lee–Enfield
This article is about the early twentieth-century British rifle. For other uses, see Lee rifle and Enfield rifle (disambiguation).
British bolt-action rifle
| Lee–Enfield | |
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A 1903 short magazine Lee–Enfield Mk I in the Swedish Army Museum | |
| Type | Bolt-actionrifle |
| Place of origin | United Kingdom |
| In service | 1895–1957 (as the standard British service rifle) |
| Used by | See Users |
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| Designer | James Paris Lee |
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| No. built | 17,000,000+ |
| Variants | See Models/marks |
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