Their signature item, however, came with their tool of the trade, the Lee-Enfield No. 4 Mark 1 (T) sniper rifle. Primarily, this was the same rifle issued to the regular soldiers, a bolt-action, ten-shot weapon with an eight-inch spike bayonet that resembled a long nail rather than a knife. “The men liked the rifle,” wrote Captain John Kemp, the second-in-command of D Company. “They understood it, they could use it, they trusted it; it was a very good weapon, and they’d done a lot of shooting with it.” Reliable, steady and extremely accurate, it was what every frontline soldier needed: a pig
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