Help with ID'ing BSA Long Lee

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I have a deactivated Long Lee stamped "BSA 1896 LE I".

I was wondering if anybody could tell me what the marks on the top of the butt plate mean. It is stamped "5" over "CA" and under that "230".
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Deactivated not by my doing! Looks like it was done over 50yrs ago.

Thanks Woodchopper! Rack 230 would be the # of that gun as used by that Battery?
 
Roto said:
Deactivated not by my doing! Looks like it was done over 50yrs ago.

Thanks Woodchopper! Rack 230 would be the # of that gun as used by that Battery?
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I might be wrong.

I'm going from memory ;) CA could also be Cadet Artillary (Austrailia)

The 5th Battery was stationed in Esquimalt, is the rifle Canadian marked
 
I can't see any C/|\ or anything. It does have a bunch of War Dept. "WD /|\" marks on it and the butt stock has "BSA & Co Birmingham II" on it. Thats all I can find.
 
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