P 14 Precis For Website

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A brief history of the Pattern '14 rifle, its predecessors, successors and accoutrements.

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Pattern 1913

.276 Enfield Design RL 18000C

.303 inch Pattern 1914 rifle

Change from Mark I to Mark I*

Pattern ’13 bayonetMade by Remington (RE) and Winchester (W)Eddystone failed to produce any.

Wire Cutter No.1 Mark I

Cup, No.23, Rifle grenade No.4Mark I

Pattern 1914 Mark I*W (T)

with Pattern 1918 sight

Latvian troops

Shortened .303 inch Pattern ’14 modified with folding bayonet.

(c.1935, possibly by Soley)

.303 inch Pattern ’14 with stored bayonet. Converted by Soley Armament co., 1936

M1917 with Pattern ’14 cup discharger

Rifle No.3 Mark I* (T) A

Conversion by Alexander Martin of Glasgow, July 1940.

These rifles used old WWI Aldis ‘scopes.