Finding a Lee Enfield

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I know this is a super long shot, but a friend of the family has expressed an interest in finding his service rifle. As far as he remembers, it's a 1941 Long Branch no4 mk1 serial number 2L3075. If anyone has any info on it, or knows where I might find more info, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.
 
He was a lance-bombardier in the fourth field artillery, had his 21st birthday on the boat on the way back. Apparently he had to give it up in holland befor he shipped back.

He's been using the serial number to ID his stuff ever since.

Thanks for checking.
 
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bang_on_sk said:
I know this is a super long shot, but a friend of the family has expressed an interest in finding his service rifle. As far as he remembers, it's a 1941 Long Branch no4 mk1 serial number 2L3075. If anyone has any info on it, or knows where I might find more info, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.
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Wow would it be cool for that old guy to find his service rifle. What a story that would make. Good luck on your quest...tagged for interest.
 
There is a very good chance that rifle never left Holland. Lots of the stuff taken to Europe stayed there. Mind you a lot of it came back as well.
 
Have you checked the Long Branch serial number survey over in the gunboards Lee-Enfield section?

I'll ask the fellow who's documenting the database for you. There are 71 recorded 1941 LB rifles in there.
 
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Nor mine.
There is a slight possibility that the rifle survived. The probability of finding it, if it did, is very, very low.
 
It's a needle in a haystack, but it can happen. Several yrs ago there was a story in the Garand Collectors Journal about a US Army Korea vet being re-united with his personal issue M1 Garand. Others had heard his story, located the rifle and presented it to him.

I'm fortunate to own my late uncle's personal issue S&W Pre-Victory revolver that he carried from Normandy thru to the end of the war. I also have another matching Pre-Victory and a souvenir byf P38 that he acquired. He shipped them home in pieces before he was repatriated. We used to have a photo of him firing a Garand that he picked up somewhere along the road thru Europe. I wish he had shipped that one back too.
 
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Nor mine.
There is a slight possibility that the rifle survived. The probability of finding it, if it did, is very, very low.
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We both understand that. He figures it's still in Holland, so I'll be contacting some reenactment groups over there to see if they can help.

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It's a needle in a haystack, but it can happen. Several yrs ago there was a story in the Garand Collectors Journal about a US Army Korea vet being re-united with his personal issue M1 Garand. Others had heard his story, located the rifle and presented it to him.

I'm fortunate to own my late uncle's personal issue S&W Pre-Victory revolver that he carried from Normandy thru to the end of the war. I also have another matching Pre-Victory and a souvenir byf P38 that he acquired. He shipped them home in pieces before he was repatriated. We used to have a photo of him firing a Garand that he picked up somewhere along the road thru Europe. I wish he had shipped that one back too.
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We have my grandfather's webley that was given to him by a British officer who was supposed to throw it over the side of a ship at Dunkirk. He was a Staff Officer and told me the only time he carried it was when it wouldn't fit in his luggage.
 
considering they were used in ww2 Korea and then sold as surplus globally its be a hard one to track down not to mention that a lot of them have been destroyed(you see them from time to time at gun buy back programs and handed over a lot) it may not even be in one piece anymore
 
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