Can anyone help me identify my No4 Mk1 with the markings ?

Pre-1898

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I have to admid I am a novice in the Lee Enfield rifles and again I am requesting your help.

I would like to know the manufacturer and if possible which regiment or ? this rifle was issued to. are all parts matching ? etc .

all I could find on it is these markings. maybe I could find some more but I did not take it apart .

here is what is visible from the outside:





 
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It's a 42 Faz. The A suffix means that the receiver was a bit out of standard and some parts may not interchange. It's okay that way. The receiver may have been an earlier trials run as they were putting anything together in 42. The England mark under the serial # is an export mark after sold out of service. Or perhaps more to the point, an import mark for the US.
 
Looks like the fore stock and probably the hand guard wood has been replaced, but that is OK too IMO.

Safety & Cocking piece picture is a little blurry. Any markings on the bolt head or bolt handle?
 
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There are lists to decipher who made the various parts by the markings. Canadian parts are simple - LB for Long Branch for everything, except CCM for the stamped nose cap. Savage will have a stylized letter S, or contemporary Long Branch markings.
 
It would be great if one of these rifles could be tied to an action, even a theatre of operations, but keeping such records was not deemed worthwhile - future collector curiosity was not considered.

It would be solid gold if a rifle could be tied to a soldier. Much family folklore holds that the Lee Enfield sporter they have was "used by grandpa in WWII" (originally it might have been: "like grandpa used") and it morphed. Soldiers were not allowed to keep their rifle when their service ended, and the most probable source for it was from a barrel at the local General Store.
 
Somebody restocked that rifle at a much later date, the forend is dated 1967, plus the butt and forend is Beech and the rear upper handguard appears to be Birch. I think this rifle may be a sporter conversion back to full military.
 
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Was this because the cocking piece was not serated and could easily slip when pulled ?
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i would assume so, after the loss of so much equipment at dunkirk and the german bombing campaigns, many cost/time/material saving measures were tried, like the removal of the bolt catch in the mk1* the simplified rear sight versions, the removal of the set screw for front sight adjustment, etc. many of the expediant parts were removed in postwar FTR. these cocking pieces were part of that, and some supposedly didnt even have the half #### slot
 
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