Cavalry Carbine Help
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"...31st Grey Battalion of Infantry..." Not likely. That's likely just a rack number.
"...indicate surplus to another country..." Only place it'd come from is Britain. No Canadian military kit in those days. Everything was Brit. Assuming your 'DC' mark is supposed to be 'Dominion of Canada', there was no such thing in 1870.
"...indicate surplus to another country..." Only place it'd come from is Britain. No Canadian military kit in those days. Everything was Brit. Assuming your 'DC' mark is supposed to be 'Dominion of Canada', there was no such thing in 1870.
Every infantry battalion had an attached mounted squadron fromc1866 to the mid 1870s. Since the mounted troops were issued Snider CCs in 1872 this arm could well have been stamped then. The cavalry units attached to the Infantry battalions were detached and allocated to cavalry units c1875.
For example the 27th Lambton Battalion of Infantry had a detached mounted squadron HQed at Mooretown ON. This squadron was detached and allocated to the 1st Regt of Cavalry (later 1st Hussars) London ON c1875.
I have examined a few Snider CCs marked for the 27th and wondered how an infantry unit would have a CC. Found out when the story of the 27th's cavalry unit is discussed in "The Gallant Hussars" the history of the 1st Hussars.
Canada confederated on 1 July 1867 as "Dominion of Canada". That is why it was called Dominion day for 113 years.
In 1867 Canada took delivery of 3000 M1866 Peabody rifles, three band 50 cal RF, used by nobody else a distinctly Canadian arm.
For example the 27th Lambton Battalion of Infantry had a detached mounted squadron HQed at Mooretown ON. This squadron was detached and allocated to the 1st Regt of Cavalry (later 1st Hussars) London ON c1875.
I have examined a few Snider CCs marked for the 27th and wondered how an infantry unit would have a CC. Found out when the story of the 27th's cavalry unit is discussed in "The Gallant Hussars" the history of the 1st Hussars.
Canada confederated on 1 July 1867 as "Dominion of Canada". That is why it was called Dominion day for 113 years.
In 1867 Canada took delivery of 3000 M1866 Peabody rifles, three band 50 cal RF, used by nobody else a distinctly Canadian arm.
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There was a Dominion of Canada in 1870 but even if there weren't, many rifles were issued in Canada long after they were manufactured in Great Britain.
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