The Great War
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Select the photograph to enlarge it.Photo: Horace Nicholls, Imperial War Museums, Public domain

Weapons

Lee-Enfield

The standard British and Commonwealth infantry rifle of both world wars, a bolt-action weapon adopted in 1895 that fed .303 cartridges from a ten-round box magazine. The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield (SMLE) was simplified as the Mk III* in late 1915 because the earlier model was too complicated to build in quantity.

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Wikidata Q723346