Can someone identify this Lee Enfield?

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This is a strange situation and I don't know if it was already posted here as I was out of the forum for a while.

Can you identify this Lee Enfield? What should justify that a RCEME is getting that type of rifle?

Thanks for your input!

Martin

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I recall having seen a rifle like that. It was marked AEL or something like that and was apparently used in the canadian aircrafts as safety weapon. Does it ring a bell to someone?
 
Photo rings a bell. Think its the German commander surrendering in Ijmuiden Holland, when the Canadians arrived. My dad was there. :) Judging by the optics, must be a sniper or sharpshooter of some kind.

Grizz
 
Lots of stuff went on during the war that would give the Regs excrement fits, then and now. If that guy is RCEME(can't make out the shoulder flash in the picture), he's lost. RCEME guys were REMFs(my Da was RCEME attached to 2nd Armour). Rarely armed and not anywhere near the front lines.
No Rangers in W.W. II.
 
sunray said:
Lots of stuff went on during the war that would give the Regs excrement fits, then and now. If that guy is RCEME(can't make out the shoulder flash in the picture), he's lost. RCEME guys were REMFs(my Da was RCEME attached to 2nd Armour). Rarely armed and not anywhere near the front lines.
No Rangers in W.W. II.
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True that. There were plenty of instances of weird equipment used by all armies in WW2. I recently read an account from one of Monty's staff officers in Italy after watching a Canadian infantry attack go in near Ortona. The officer said Monty thought the Canadians attacked in fine style but complained on their "irregular dress". The officer claimed they were passed by Canadian soldiers, one sporting a bowler hat and another wearing a hockey jersey with FLIN FLON written on the front.
 
Mike Webb said:
True that. There were plenty of instances of weird equipment used by all armies in WW2. I recently read an account from one of Monty's staff officers in Italy after watching a Canadian infantry attack go in near Ortona. The officer said Monty thought the Canadians attacked in fine style but complained on their "irregular dress". The officer claimed they were passed by Canadian soldiers, one sporting a bowler hat and another wearing a hockey jersey with FLIN FLON written on the front.
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That's a hoot considering how Monty practically made up his "uniform" based on what he felt like each day.
 
sunray said:
Lots of stuff went on during the war that would give the Regs excrement fits, then and now. If that guy is RCEME(can't make out the shoulder flash in the picture), he's lost. RCEME guys were REMFs(my Da was RCEME attached to 2nd Armour). Rarely armed and not anywhere near the front lines.
No Rangers in W.W. II.
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the combat arms actively pulled from support it happened to my grandfather, tho I would the guy in the pic would have rebadged
 
Mike Webb said:
True that. There were plenty of instances of weird equipment used by all armies in WW2. I recently read an account from one of Monty's staff officers in Italy after watching a Canadian infantry attack go in near Ortona. The officer said Monty thought the Canadians attacked in fine style but complained on their "irregular dress". The officer claimed they were passed by Canadian soldiers, one sporting a bowler hat and another wearing a hockey jersey with FLIN FLON written on the front.
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Hilarious...any idea of what/where is a FLIN FLON?
 
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