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Lee-Enfield rifle series
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The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield or SMLE, is a series of bolt-action rifles and carbines that were designed by Scottish-born gun designer James Paris Lee (1831-1904) and the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield Lock, Great Britain; to replace the Lee-Metford series bolt-action rifles and carbines (a series of bolt-action rifles and carbines that were designed by James Paris Lee and William Ellis Metford) when the British armed forces adopted smokeless gun powder in the late 19th century. The Lee-Enfield series of bolt-action rifles and carbines saw extensive service with the armed forces of Great Britain and the nations, colonies, and dominion states of the British Empire/British Commonwealth from 1895, until the rifles were replaced from frontline military service in 1957 by the British version of the FN FAL, the L1A1 Self Loading Rifle in 1957.
The SMLE is renowned for its history, accuracy, power, fast rate of fire and capacity, which led the Military Channel to name the Lee-Enfield SMLE as the third best combat rifle ever designed. The smooth, spring-loaded bolt design allowed for fast cycling and the advanced adjustable sights allowed for accuracy at long ranges, which leads many to dub the SMLE as the "Cadillac of bolt-action rifles". The SMLE still sees combat to this day and is still produced in various countries for various calibers. Over 17 million SMLEs have been built worldwide since 1907.
Short Magazine Lee-Enfield rifle
This includes all examples of the SMLE or Lee Enfield Bolt action rifle from its introduction to the last widely-distributed version.
Specifications
(1907 - present)
- Type: Rifle
- Caliber: .303 British Mk VII SAA Ball
- Weight: 8.8 lbs (4 kg)
- Length: 43.3 in (110 cm)
- Barrel length: 25 in (63.5 cm)
- Muzzle velocity: 2,441 ft/s (744 m/s)
- Capacity: 10-round detachable box magazine (loaded with 5-round charger or stripper clips); rare 20-round “trench magazines” are known to have existed.
- Sights: Fixed open iron sights graduated to 2000 meters: U-shaped rear peep stand-up sight adjustable for windage and elevation and barleycorn front sight
- Fire Modes: Bolt-Action
The Lee-Enfield rifle series and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:
Film
Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
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Hearts of the World | British soldiers | No. 1 Mk.III* | 1918 | |
Storm Over Asia | A Red partisan | No.1 Mk.III* | 1928 | |
Carry on, Sergeant! | British and German soldiers | No.1 Mk.III* | 1928 | |
Hell's Angels | British troops | No.1 Mk III | 1930 | |
Journey's End | British solders | No.1 Mk III | 1930 | |
Tell England | Carl Harbord | Edgar Doe | No.1 Mk.III* | 1931 |
Tony Bruce | Rupert Ray | |||
British and ANZAC soldiers | ||||
The Other Side | William Trenk | Mason | No.1 Mk III | 1931 |
The Lost Patrol | Victor McLaglen | The Sergeant | No.1 Mk.III | 1934 |
Wallace Ford | Morelli | |||
British soldiers | ||||
Shock Troop | British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III | 1934 | |
The Man Who Knew Too Much | Police officers | No. 1 Mk III* | 1934 | |
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer | Bengal Lancers | No.1 Mk.III* | 1935 | |
rebels | ||||
Clouds Over Europe | Viking crewmembers and British pilots and sailors | No.1 Mk.III* | 1939 | |
Forty Thousand Horsemen | ANZAC soldiers | No.1 Mk.III | 1940 | |
Sundown | Emmett Smith | Kipsang | No.1 Mk.III* | 1941 |
British troops | ||||
Went the Day Well? | Frank Lawton | Tom Sturry | No.1 Mk.III* | 1942 |
Norman Pierce | Jim Sturry | |||
Elizabeth Allan | Peggy | |||
Frank Lawton | Ivy | |||
Extras | British Army/Home Guard Soldiers | |||
Extras | German Paratroopers | |||
Somewhere in France | No.1 Mk.III | 1942 | ||
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror | British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III | 1942 | |
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | British infantrymen | No.1 Mk.III* | 1943 | |
Sahara | British Commonwealth troops | No.1 Mk.III | 1943 | |
Immortal Sergeant | Henry Fonda | Cpl. Colin Spence | No.1 Mk.III* | 1943 |
Thomas Mitchell | Sgt. Kelly | |||
Melville Cooper | Pvt. Pilcher | |||
Morton Lowry | Pvt. Cottrell | |||
Bramwell Fletcher | Pvt. Symes | |||
Allyn Joslyn | Pvt. Cassidy | |||
British troops, German soldiers | ||||
Terror by Night | Native guards in Rhodesia | Unknown model | 1946 | |
The Desert Rats | Robert Newton | Pvt. Tom Bartlett | No.1 Mk.III | 1953 |
Australian soldiers | ||||
German soldiers | ||||
Paratrooper | British paratroopers | No.1 Mk.III* and No.4 Mk.I | 1953 | |
German soldiers | No.4 Mk.I | |||
Outpost in the Mountains (Zastava v gorakh) | Brigands | No.1 Mk.III*, No.4 Mk.I | 1953 | |
The Bridge on the River Kwai | Japanese P.O.W. guards | Mk.III* and No.4 | 1957 | |
The Hunters | Greek soldier | No.1 Mk.III | 1958 | |
Dunkirk | John Mills | Corporal "Tubby" Binns | No.1 Mk.III* | 1958 |
British soldiers | ||||
Ice Cold in Alex | British soldiers, bedouins | No.4 Mk.I | 1958 | |
The Square Peg | Norman Wisdom | Norman Pitkin | No.4 Mk.I | 1959 |
Edward Chapman | Mr. Grimsdale | |||
Campbell Singer | Sgt. Loder | |||
British soldiers | ||||
North West Frontier | Lauren Bacall | Catherine Wyatt | Mk.III | 1959 |
Eugene Deckers | Mr. Peters | |||
Wilfrid Hyde-White | Mr. Bridie | |||
Rebels and British and Indian soldiers | Mk.III and No.4 | |||
The Giant Behemoth | British soldiers | No.4 Mk.I | 1959 | |
Yesterday's Enemy | British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III | 1959 | |
Leo McKern | Max | |||
Ferry to Hong Kong | Pirates | No.1 Mk.III | 1959 | |
The Siege of Sidney Street | British Army | No. 1 Mk III* | 1960 | |
Gorgo | Christopher Rhodes | McCartin | No.4 Mk.I | 1961 |
British soldiers | No.4 Mk.I and No.1 Mk.III* | |||
Dr. No | Royal Navy sailors | No.4 | 1962 | |
The Longest Day | British troops | No.4 Mk.I | 1963 | |
From Russia with Love | SPECTRE agents | No.4 with Energa rifle grenades | 1963 | |
Goldfinger | No.1 Mk.III; seen in Q's lab | 1964 | ||
Weekend at Dunkirk | British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III | 1964 | |
Code 7... Victim 5 | Lex Barker | Steve Martin | No.1 Mk.III* | 1964 |
Gustel Gundelach | Hans Kramer | |||
Wexler's guards | ||||
The Ipcress File | No.4 Mk.I, No.4 Mk.I(T) and SMLE with the attached grenade discharger cup | 1965 | ||
Help! | The kidnappers | No.1 Mk.III* | 1965 | |
Buckingham Palace guards | No.4 | |||
The Heroes of Telemark | Richard Harris | Knut Staud | No.4 | 1965 |
Check Passed: No Mines (Provereno nema mina) | Yugoslavian soldiers | No.1 Mk.III* and No.4 Mk.I | 1965 | |
Cast a Giant Shadow | Kirk Douglas | "Mickey" Marcus | No.4 Mk.I | 1966 |
Arab Legion soldiers | No.1 Mk.III | |||
Judith | Peter Finch | Aaron Stein | No.4 Mk.I | 1966 |
Haganah members | No.4 Mk.I | |||
Poppies Are Also Flowers | Brigands, Colonel Salem's men | No.1 Mk.III* and No.4 Mk.I | 1966 | |
Is Paris Burning? | French Resistance fighters | No.1 Mk.III* | 1966 | |
How I Won the War | Michael Crawford | Lt. Goodbody | No.1 Mk.III* | 1967 |
John Lennon | Gripweed | |||
Roy Kinnear | Clapper | |||
Lee Montague | Sgt. Transom | |||
Ronald Lacey | Spool | |||
Jack MacGowran | Juniper | |||
Musketeers (British soldiers) | ||||
You Only Live Twice | Royal Navy honor guards | No.4 Mk.I | 1967 | |
If... | Malcolm McDowell | Mick Travis | No.4 Mk.I | 1968 |
British soldiers and public school students | ||||
The Southern Star | Ian Hendry | Capt. Karl Ludwig | No.1 Mk.III* | 1968 |
Plankett's Aboriginal men | ||||
Dark of the Sun | Simbas | No.1 Mk.III* and No.4 Mk.I | 1968 | |
How I Unleashed World War II | British soldiers | No.4 | 1970 | |
No Blade Of Grass | Survivors | No.1 Mk.III* | 1970 | |
Too Late the Hero | Ronald Fraser | Pvt. Campbell | No.1 Mk.III | 1970 |
Kelly's Heroes | U.S. soldier | No.4 | 1970 | |
You Can't Win 'Em All | Greek soldiers | No.1 MkIII | 1970 | |
The Stolen Train (Otkradnatiyat vlak) | Turkish border guard | No.4 | 1971 | |
Sitting Target | Police sniper | No.4 Mk.I(T) | 1972 | |
Zardoz | Exterminators | No.4 | 1974 | |
The Wilby Conspiracy | Black Congress militants | No.1 Mk.III & No.4 Mk.I | 1975 | |
Sholay | Dharmendra | Veeru | No.4 Mk.I | 1975 |
Amitabh Bachchan | Jai | |||
Amjad Khan | Gabbar | No.4 Mk.I | ||
Gabbar's brigands | No.1 Mk.III, No.4 Mk.I | |||
Paper Tiger | Ronald Fraser | Sgt. Forster | No.4 Mk.I | 1975 |
Raid on Entebbe | Ugandan soldiers | No.4 Mk.I | 1976 | |
Soldier of Orange | Jeroen Krabbé | Guus LeJeune | No.4 Mk.I | 1977 |
English and Dutch soldiers | No.1 Mk.III, No.4 Mk.I | |||
I Am the Law (Il prefetto di ferro) | Giuliano Gemma | Caesare Mori | No.1 Mk.III* | 1977 |
Bandits | ||||
A Bridge Too Far | Anthony Hopkins | Colonel John Frost | No 4 Mk 1* | 1977 |
British troops | ||||
March or Die | British soldiers | No 1 Mk III | 1977 | |
From Hell to Victory | British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III* | 1979 | |
Escape to Athena | Greek resistance fighter | No.4 Mk.I | 1979 | |
The Outsider (1980) | Frank Grimes | Tony Coyle | No.4 | 1980 |
IRA gunmen | ||||
Flatfoot in Egypt | Bedouins | No.1 Mk.III* | 1980 | |
Jupiter's Thigh (On a volé la cuisse de Jupiter) | Greece police | No.1 Mk.III* | 1980 | |
Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure | John Fujioka | Kamasuka | No.4 Mk.I | 1981 |
Gandhi | British and Indian soldiers and (Nepalese) Gurkhas | No. 4 | 1982 | |
Bukit Kepong | Malayan Police officers | No.4 Mk.I | 1982 | |
Communist gunmens | ||||
Police Jungle Squad | ||||
Auxiliary police | No.1 Mk.III | |||
Communist gunmens | ||||
Villagers | ||||
Police Jungle Squad | ||||
Octopussy | Kamal Khan's guards | No.4 Mk.I | 1983 | |
Sahara | John Rhys-Davies | Rasoul | No.1 Mk.III* (Beg own custom) | 1983 |
Lambert Wilson | Jaffar | |||
Ronald Lacey | Beg | |||
Nomadic tribes fighters | ||||
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | Terry Jones | Lt. Biggs | No.1 Mk.III* | 1983 |
British soldiers | ||||
High Road To China | Ric Young | Kim Su Lee | No.1 | 1983 |
Razorback | Bill Kerr | Jake Cullen | No. 1 Mk III* (with fore-end cut down and a telescopic sight fitted to suit sporting use.) | 1984 |
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | British and Indian Army soldiers | No 4. Mk.I | 1984 | |
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome | A biker | No.1 Mk.III* | 1985 | |
Out of Africa | Several men in hunter camp | No.1 Mk III* | 1986 | |
Club Paradise | revolutionaries and soldiers | No. 1 Mk III* | 1986 | |
The Lighthorsemen | Gary Sweet | Frank | No.1 Mk.III | 1987 |
Peter Phelps | Dave Mitchell | |||
British and Australian soldiers | ||||
Project A Part II | Hong Kond Police Force constables and Marine Police sailors | No.1 Mk.III, No.4 Mk.I | 1987 | |
The Beast of War | Steven Bauer | Taj | No.1 Mk.III* | 1988 |
Afghan Mujahideen | ||||
Rambo III | Mujahideen fighters | No.1 Mk.III* and No.4 Mk.I | 1988 | |
Appointment with Death | British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III* | 1988 | |
Farewell To The King | Frank McRae | Sgt. Tenga | No.4 Mk.I with sniper scope | 1989 |
Australian soldiers, Gurkha soldiers, Headhunters | No.1 Mk.III* | |||
River of Death | River pirates | Lee-Enfield No.1 Mk.III* | 1989 | |
Afghan Breakdown | Mujaheddins | No.1 Mk.III*, No.4 Mk.I | 1991 | |
Shadow of the Wolf | Donald Sutherland | Henderson | No.4 Mk.I | 1992 |
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls | British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III | 1992 | |
The Price of Treasures (Tsena sokrovishch) | Aleksandr Koznov | Pavel | No.1 Mk.III | 1993 |
Nadezhda Gorshkova | Anna | |||
Cocker's bandits, British soldiers | ||||
Legends of the Fall | Henry Thomas | Samuel Ludlow | No.I Mk.III* | 1994 |
Brad Pitt | Tristan Ludlow | |||
Canadian infantrymen | ||||
Sahara | Robert Wisdom | Sergeant-Major Tambul | No. 1 Mk III | 1995 |
Land and Freedom | Spanish Republicans Militia member | No.4 Mk.I; anachronistic | 1995 | |
Richard III | British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III* | 1995 | |
Michael Collins | British and IRA forces | Mk.III | 1996 | |
Prisoner of the Mountains (Kavkazskiy plennik) | Oleg Menshikov | Sanya | No.1 Mk.III* | 1996 |
Sergey Bodrov Jr. | Ivan Zhilin | |||
The Quest | No.1 Mk.III*; Seen in cargo of Turkish freighter | 1996 | ||
Seven Years in Tibet | British-Indian soldiers and Tibetan militia forces | No.1 Mk.III* | 1997 | |
The Lost World | Russell Yuen | Myar | No.1 | 1998 |
The Trench | Daniel Craig | Sgt. Winter | Mk.III | 1999 |
Paul Nicholls | MacFarlane | |||
Danny Dyer | Lance Corporal Dell | |||
Cillian Murphy | Pvt. Rookwood | |||
James D'Arcy | Pvt. Daventry | |||
British soldiers | ||||
All The King Men | British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III | 1999 | |
Three Kings | Shiite refugee | No.1 Mk.III* | 1999 | |
Bloody Sunday | An IRA member | No.1 Mk.III | 2001 | |
The Lost Battalion | US soldiers | No.4 MkI | 2001 | |
The Mummy Returns | Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje | Lock-Nah | No.1 Mk.III* | 2001 |
El Alamein - The Line of Fire | British Troops | No.1 Mk.III* | 2002 | |
Deathwatch | Hans Matheson | Pvt. Hawkstone | No.4 Mk.I | 2002 |
Jamie Bell | Pvt. Shakespeare | |||
Hugo Speer | Sgt. Tate | |||
Dean Lennox Kelly | Pvt. McNess | |||
Hugh O'Conor | Pvt. Bradford | |||
Kris Marshall | Pvt. Starinski | No.4 Mk.I with sniper scope | ||
Zelary | Jan Tríska | Old Gorcík | No.4 Mk.I | 2003 |
Secondhand Lions | Michael O'Neill | Ralph | No.1 Mk.III* | 2003 |
Dhoom | Police | No.1 Mk.III* | 2004 | |
Curse of the Komodo | William Langlois | Prof. Nathan Phipps | Customized No.4 Mk.I | 2004 |
Kokoda (2006) | Jack Finsterer | Jack Scholt | No.1 Mk.III* | 2006 |
Simon Stone | Max Scholt | |||
Travis McMahon | Darko | |||
Tom Budge | Johnno | |||
Steve Le Marquand | Sam | |||
Angus Sampson | Dan | |||
Australian soldiers | ||||
Joyeux Noel | Scottish soldiers | No.1 Mk.III* | 2005 | |
Dhoom 2 | Abhishek Bachchan | A.C.P. Jai Dixit | custom | 2006 |
Snipers | ||||
The Wind That Shakes The Barley | IRA, British forces | No. 1 Mk. III | 2006 | |
Black Book | Canadian soldiers, Dutch resistance | No.4 Mk.I | 2006 | |
Pan's Labyrinth | Spanish Guardia | No.1 Mk.III* | 2006 | |
Spanish Maquis | ||||
My Boy Jack | Daniel Radcliffe | Lieutenant Jack Kipling | No.1 Mk.III | 2007 |
Richard Dormer | Corporal John O'Leary | |||
British soldiers | ||||
Atonement | British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III* | 2007 | |
Transformers | Village militia in Qatar | No.1 Mk.III* | 2007 | |
Hot Fuzz | Kevin Eldon | Sgt. Tony Fisher | No.1 Mk III* | 2007 |
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep | British Army soldiers | No.4 Mk.I | 2007 | |
Assembly (Ji jie hao) | Hanyu Zhang | Gu Zidi | No.4 Mk.I | 2007 |
Female Agents | Sophie Marceau | Louise Desfontaines | No.4 Mk.I with sniper scope | 2008 |
The 39 Steps | British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III* | 2008 | |
Tobruk | Czech troops | No.1 Mk.III* | 2008 | |
Max Manus: Man of War | Nicolai Cleve Broch | Gregers Gram | No.4 Mk.I | 2008 |
Norwegian resistance | ||||
Peranmai | Vasundhara Kashyap | Kalpana | No.1 Mk.III* | 2009 |
Dhansika | Jennifer | |||
'Kaadhal' Saranya | Ajitha | |||
Liyashree | Susheela | |||
Varsha Ashwathi | Thulasi | |||
Jeyam Ravi | Dhuruvan | |||
female soldiers | ||||
Passchendaele | Paul Gross | Sgt. Michael Dunne | No.1 Mk.III* | 2009 |
Michael Greyeyes | Pvt. Highway | |||
Joe Dinicol | Pvt. David Mann | |||
Canadian soldiers | ||||
Red and White (Merah Putih) | Darius Sinathryah | Marius | No.1 Mk.III* | 2009 |
Donny Alamsyah | Tomas | |||
Dutch/Indonesian soldiers | ||||
Red and White (Merah Putih) | Darius Sinathryah | Marius | No.4 Mk.I prop rifle | 2009 |
Zumi Zola | Surono | |||
Lukman Sardi | Amir | |||
Donny Alamsyah | Tomas | |||
T. Rifnu Wikana | Dayan | |||
Indonesian cadets | ||||
Japanese soldiers | ||||
Beneath Hill 60 | Australian and British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III* | 2010 | |
Let the Bullets Fly | Wen Jiang | Pocky Zhang | No.1 Mk.III* | 2010 |
Fan Liao | Three | |||
John Do | Four | |||
Li Jing | Five | |||
Xiao Wei | Seven | |||
Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen | French troops | No.1 Mk.III* | 2010 | |
Day of the Falcon (Or noir) | Akin Gazi | Saleh | No.1 Mk.I | 2011 |
Amar's, Nesib's and Auda's men | No.1 Mk.I, No.1 Mk.III*, No.4 Mk.I | |||
War Horse | British troops | No.1 Mk.III | 2011 | |
Jeremy Irvine | Albert Narracott | |||
Matt Milne | Andrew Easton | |||
Battle of Warsaw 1920 | Red Army soldiers | No.1 Mk.III* | 2011 | |
100 Bloody Acres | Angus Sampson | Lindsay | No.1 Mk.III* | 2012 |
Damon Herriman | Reg | |||
Cockneys vs. Zombies | Jonathan Stephenson | Young Ray | No.1 Mk.III* | 2012 |
Emden Men | British Sailors | No.1 Mk.III* | 2012 | |
Wolf Creek 2 | John Jarratt | Mick Taylor | No.1 Mk.III* | 2013 |
Gerard Kennedy | Jack | |||
The Railway Man | British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III* | 2013 | |
The Water Diviner | Australian soldiers | No.1, No.4 | 2014 | |
The Fear | British soldier | No.1 Mk.III* | 2015 | |
The Siege of Jadotville | Irish soldiers | No.4 | 2016 | |
7 Witches | Macall Gordon | Paula Boyle | No.1 Mk.III* | 2017 |
Persephone Apostolou | Kate Boyle | |||
Megan Hensley | Agatha Sklar | |||
Steve Pelikan | vigilante leader | |||
vigilantes | ||||
The Lost City of Z | Robert Pattinson | Henry Costin | No.1 Mk.III* | 2017 |
Edward Ashley | Arthur Manley | No.1 Mk.III* | ||
British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III* | |||
Dunkirk | Fionn Whitehead | Tommy | No.1 Mk.III* | 2017 |
Harry Styles | Alex | |||
British soldiers | ||||
Wonder Woman | Saïd Taghmaoui | Sameer | No.1 Mk.III | 2017 |
British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III | |||
All the Money in the World | tribesmen | No.4 Mk.I* | 2017 | |
Darkest Hour | British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III* | 2017 | |
Journey's End | Andy Gathergood | Company Sergeant Major | No.1 Mk.III* | 2018 |
British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III*; w/ fixed bayonet | |||
12 Strong | Arshia Mandavi | Najeeb | No. 1 Mk.III* | 2018 |
Television
Show Title | Actor | Character | Episode | Date |
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The War Game | British police officers and survivors | No.4 Mk.I | 1965 | |
Rat Patrol | British soldiers | No.1 | 1966-1968 | |
Stawka wieksza niz zycie | British soldiers | No.4 | 1966-68 | |
Monty Python's Flying Circus | WWII British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III* | 1969-1974 | |
The Professionals | CI5 agents and police | No.4 and No.4T; "Heroes", "Stopover", "Madness of Mickey Hamilton" | 1977-1981 | |
Journey's End | British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III* | 1988 | |
Anzacs | Andrew Clarke | Martin "Marty" Barrington | No.1 Mk.III* | 1985 |
Jon Blake | Flanagan | |||
Christopher Cummins | Roly Collins | |||
Alec Wilson | Alec "Pudden" Parsons | |||
Patrick Ward | Sgt. Tom MacArthur | |||
Mark Hembrow | Dick Baker | |||
Blackadder Goes Forth | Tony Robinson | Pvt. Baldrick | No.1 Mk.III*; "General Hospital" | 1989 |
British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III* | |||
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Kidnapped Prime Minister | British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III | 1990 | |
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Mysterious Affair at Styles | British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III | 1990 | |
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Cameron Daddo | Jack Anderson | "Palestine 1917"; No. 1 Mk. III | 1993 |
Todd Boyce | Dex | |||
British and Australian soldiers | ||||
Sahara | Alan David Lee | Bates | No.1 Mk III* | 1995 |
Medicopter 117 - Jedes Leben zählt - Season 4 | Gerald Alexander Held | Hans Breitner | seventh episode | 2001 |
Ultimate Force | No.1 Mk.III*; seen on the wall of the SAS bar | 2002 - 2007 | ||
Foyle's War | British Army and Home Guard soldiers | No.1 Mk.III* | 2002-2010 | |
The Somme | Oliver Jones | Pvt. Cyril Jose | No.1 Mk.III* and No.4 Mk.I | 2005 |
Patrick Kennedy | Sergeant Richard H. Tawney | |||
Martin Hancock | Pvt. Andrews | |||
Nick Figgis | Pvt. Burke | |||
British soldiers | ||||
Doctor Who (New series) | David Tennant | The Doctor | No.1 Mk.III; "The Family of Blood" | 2005 - |
British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III*; "The Empty Child", "The Doctor Dances" | |||
British soldiers | No.4 Mk.I; "Victory Of the Daleks" | |||
My Name is Earl | Young Joe | No.1 Mk.III*; S4E4 | 2005-2009 | |
The Somme – From Defeat to Victory | British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III* | 2006 | |
Midsomer Murders | Ifan Huw Dafydd | Paul Bright | "Dance with the Dead" (S10E01); No.4 Mk.I | 2006 |
Sea Patrol | Kate McGregor | Mk.III*; S3E9 | 2007 | |
Pete 'Buffer' Tomaszewski | ||||
24: Redemption | Robert Carlyle | Carl Benton | No.4 Mk.I | 2008 |
Kiefer Sutherland | Jack Bauer | |||
Inspector George Gently | Martin Shaw | DCI George Gently | No.1; "The Burning Man" (S01E01) | 2008 |
Police constables | ||||
Midsomer Murders | Will Featherstone | Pvt. Tommy Hicks | "Shot at Dawn" (S11E01); No.1 Mk.III* | 2008 |
Lloyd Hutchinson | Mickey Ryan | |||
Malcolm Sinclair | Johnny Hammond | |||
Covert Affairs | Eriq La Salle | Christopher McAuley | No.1 Mk.III; "In the Light" (S1E05) | 2010 |
Kokoda | Australian soldiers | No.1 Mk.III* | 2010 | |
Foyle's War - Season 7 | British soldiers | No.4 Mk.I; "The Russian House" (S7E1) | 2010 | |
Falling Skies | Resistance fighters | No.1 Mk.III* | 2011 | |
The Promise | Christian Cooke | Len Matthews | No.1 Mk.III*, No.4 Mk.I*, Parker Hale Lee Enfield T4 Sniper Rifle | 2011 |
Luke Allen-Gale | Corporal Jackie Clough | |||
British paratroopers | No.1 Mk.III*, No.4 Mk.I* | |||
Irgun fighters | No.4 Mk.I* | |||
Arab fighters | ||||
Downton Abbey | British soldiers | No. I Mk III and No. I Mk III*;S2E01, E04, E05 | 2011 | |
Birdsong | British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III | 2012 | |
Peaky Blinders | Joe Cole | John Shelby | No.1 MkIII | 2013 |
Benjamin Zephaniah | Jeremiah Jesus | |||
Foyle's War - Season 8 | British soldiers | No.4 Mk.I*; "The Cage" (S8E2) | 2013 | |
Father Brown - Season 1 | Constables | No.4 Mk.I; "The Blue Cross" (S01E10) | 2013 | |
Parer's War | Australian Commandos | No.1 Mk.III* | 2014 | |
14 - Diaries of the Great War | British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III* | 2014 | |
Grantchester - Season 1 | British soldiers | No.4 Mk.I; (S1E6) | 2014 | |
Endeavour - Season 2 | A reenactor of British Army of WW1 | No.1 Mk.III*; "Trove" (S02E01) | 2014 | |
Father Brown - Season 3 | Steven Miller | Lt. Graham | No.4 Mk.I and No.1 Mk.III*; "The Sign of the Broken Sword" (S03E04) | 2015 |
Angus Wright | Col. St Clare | No.4 Mk.I and No.1 Mk.III*; "The Sign of the Broken Sword" (S03E04) | ||
Alex Price | Sid Carter | No.4 Mk.I and No.1 Mk.III*; "The Sign of the Broken Sword" (S03E04) | ||
Foyle's War - Season 9 | British soldiers | No.4 Mk.I; "High Castle" (S9E1) | 2015 | |
Deadline Gallipoli | ANZAC soldiers | No.1 Mk.III* | 2015 | |
Rebellion (miniseries) | Barry Ward | Arthur Mahon | Ep. 01/02/03/04/05 | 2016 |
Barry Keoghan | Cormac McDevitt | Ep. 01/02/04/05 | ||
Eemeli Louhimies | Milo | Ep. 02 | ||
Brian Gleeson | Jimmy Mahon | Ep. 02/03/04 | ||
Ruairí Heading | Fusilier McGarry | Ep. 02/03 | ||
Charlie Kelly | Fusilier O'Hanlo | Ep. 02/03 | ||
British Officersand ICA members | ||||
Endeavour - Season 3 | Sean Rigby | DS Jim Strange | No.4 Mk.I(T); "Coda" (S03E04) | 2016 |
Police Constables | No.4 Mk.I and No.4 Mk.I(T); "Prey" (S03E03), "Coda" (S03E04) | |||
Father Brown - Season 5 | Dylan Brown | Terry Mitchell | No.4 Mk.I; "The Penitent Man" (S05E15) | 2017 |
SS-GB | Sam Riley | Detective Superintendent Archer | No.1 | 2017 |
Father Brown - Season 7 | Jack Deam | Inspector Mallory | No.1 Mk.III*; (S07E01) | 2019 |
John Burton | Sergeant Goodfellow | |||
Constables | No.4 Mk.I; (S07E01) | |||
James Cartwright | Jimbo Riley | No.1 Mk.III*; (S07E04) |
Video Games
Title | Appears as | Mods | Note | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty | "Rifle" | 1998 | ||
Commandos 2: Men of Courage | No.4 Mk.I | 2001, 2002, 2010 | ||
World War II Online: Battleground Europe | No.4 Mk.I, No.4 Mk.I(T) | 2001-2012 | ||
Medal of Honor: Frontline | No.4 Mk I; Non-playable | 2002 | ||
Battlefield: 1942 | No.4 Mk.I | 2002 | ||
Eternal Darkness | "Rifle" | No.1 Mk.III* | 2002 | |
Commandos 3: Destination Berlin | No.4 Mk.I | 2003 | ||
Call of Duty | No.4 Mk.I | 2003 | ||
Forgotten Hope | No.4 Mk.I, No.4 Mk.I(T) | 2003 | ||
Hidden & Dangerous 2 | "Enfield Mk.4" | No.4 Mk.I | 2003 | |
Rise of Nations | No.1 Mk.III, used by the Black Watch unit | 2003 | ||
Project Reality | No.1 Mk.III* and No.1 Mk.III*(HT) | 2005 | ||
Call of Duty 2 | "Lee-Enfield" | No.4 Mk.I; Scoped version available in singleplayer | 2005 | |
Forgotten Hope 2 | No.1 Mk.III*, No.4 Mk.I and No.4 Mk.I(T). W/o bayonet and rifle grenade launcher | 2005 | ||
Call of Duty 3 | No.4 Mk.I | 2006 | ||
Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45 | No.4 Mk.I w/ pigsticker bayonet and No.4 Mk.I(T) | 2006 | ||
The Royal Marines Commando | "Lee Enfield" | No.1 Mk.III | 2008 | |
9th Company: Roots of Terror | No.4 Mk.I(T), with sniper scope | 2009 | ||
ArmA II: Operation Arrowhead | No.4 Mk.I | 2009 | ||
Death to Spies: Moment of Truth | No.4 Mk.I & No.4 Mk.I(T) | 2009 | ||
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light | "Bolt Action Rifle" | No.4 Mk.I | 2010 | |
NCIS: The Video Game | Seen on poster | 2011 | ||
Karma Online | "Lee-Enfield" | No.1 Mk.III*(HT) | 2011 | |
ZombiU | No.4 Mk.I | 2012 | ||
Sniper Elite V2 | No.1 Mk.III* | 2012 | ||
Project Reality: Falklands | No.4 Mk.I(T) | 2012 | ||
The Great War 1918 | No.1 Mk.III* | 2013 | ||
Sniper Elite III | Lee-Enfield Mk. III | No.1 Mk.III*(HT) | 2014 | |
Verdun | SMLE | No.1 Mk.III* | 2015 | |
Battlefield 1 | SMLE Mk 3 | No.1 Mk.III* | 2016 | |
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades | No.4 Mk.I | 2016 | ||
Sniper Elite 4 | Lee-Enfield No. 4 | No.4 Mk.I | 2017 | |
Day of Infamy | "Lee-Enfield No 4" | No.4 Mk.I | 2017 | |
Screaming Steel: 1914-1918 | No. I SMLE | No.1 Mk.III* | 2018 | |
Battlefield V | Lee-Enfield No.4 Mk.I | No.4 Mk.I | 2018 | |
11-11: Memories Retold | No.1 Mk.III* | 2018 |
Animation
Film Title | Character | Notation | Date |
---|---|---|---|
Atlantis, The Lost Empire | Vinnie and other mercenaries | No.1 Mk.III | 2001 |
Anime
Title | Character | Note | Date |
---|---|---|---|
Castle in the Sky | Soldiers | No.1 Mk.III* and No.4 Mk1 mixed up with Gewehr 98 | 1986 |
Sailor | No.4 Mk1 | ||
Porco Rosso | Pirates | No.1 Mk.III* | 1992 |
Hellsing Ultimate | Ep. 01, No.4 Mk1 seen on Wall of Guns | 2006 | |
Joker Game | British/Commonwealth militaries | No.1 Mk.III* | 2016 |
The Dragon Dentist | Enemy soldiers | No.1 Mk.III* | 2017 |
Princess Principal | Ep. 03; No.4 Mk1 seen on Wall of Guns | 2017 | |
Kingdom soldiers and sailors | No.1 Mk.III* | ||
Beatrice | Ep. 05; No.1 Mk.III* | ||
Violet Evergarden | Violet Evergarden | Ep. 08, No.1 Mk.III* | 2018 |
Aidan Field | Ep. 11, No.1 Mk.III* | ||
Garderik and Ctrigall troops | Ep. 01/08/09/11/12, No.1 Mk.III* and Mk.III* (HT) | ||
Golden Kamuy | Ep. 04 "Grim Reaper", No.1 Mk.III* | 2018 |
Lee-Enfield No. 5 Mk. I "Jungle Carbine"
Film
Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
Judith | Haganah members | 1966 | ||
British paratroopers | ||||
The Last Grenade | Various characters | 1970 | ||
Sholay | Dharmendra | Veeru | 1975 | |
Amitabh Bachchan | Jai | |||
Paper Tiger | David Niven | Walter Bradbury | 1975 | |
Irene Tsu | Talah | |||
Rebels | ||||
Uncommon Valor | weapon cache | No.5 Jungle Carbine | 1983 | |
Nineteen Eighty-Four | Oceanian soldiers | 1984 | ||
Farewell To The King | Marilyn Tokuda | Yoo | 1989 | |
Afghan Breakdown | Mujaheddins | 1991 | ||
Bravo V | Communist terrorists | 2015 |
Lee-Metford
Film
Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
Project A | Biao Yuen | Hong Tin-Tzu | Lee-Metford Mk II | 1983 |
Mars | Jaws | |||
Hong Kong Police Force and Marine Police personnel, British Army soldiers, pirates |
Anime
Title | Character | Note | Date |
---|---|---|---|
Black Butler I | Baldroy | S1E21, Lee-Metford Mk I | 2008 - 2009 |
Magazine Lee-Enfield
The .303 calibre, Rifle, Magazine, Lee–Enfield, or simply Magazine Lee-Enfield (MLE), nicknamed "Long Lee Enfields", are the first variants with the Lee-Enfield name. They were in British service between 1896-1907. Of note is that the Lee-Enfield Mk. I is externally identical to its predecessor, the Lee-Metford Mk. II*.
The CLLE (Charger Loading Lee Enfield) are Magazine Lee-Enfields (or Magazine Lee-Metfords) converted to load from chargers.
Film
Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
The Death Ray | Mk.I, seen on the ground | 1925 | ||
Outpost in the Mountains (Zastava v gorakh) | Brigands | 1953 | ||
And Quiet Flows the Don (Tikhiy Don) | French soldiers | Mk.I | 1957 | |
55 Days at Peking | John Ireland | Sgt. Harry | Lee-Enfield Mk.I | 1963 |
British and American troops | ||||
Zulu (1964) | British soldiers | Mk.I* as Martini-Henry | 1964 | |
Young Winston | Sikh soldiers and British soldiers | Mk.I and Mk.I* | 1972 | |
Breaker Morant | Edward Woodward | Harry 'Breaker' Morant | Mk.I | 1980 |
Lewis Fitz-Gerald | Lt. George Ramsdale Witton | |||
Bryan Brown | Lt. Peter Handcock | |||
Australian and British soldiers and Boers | ||||
Project A | 1983 | |||
The Hound of the Baskervilles | British soldiers | Lee-Enfield Mk. I or may be Lee-Metford Mk. II | 1983 | |
The End of the Emperor of the Taiga (Konets imperatora taygi) | Solovyov's brigands | Mk.1 Carbine | 1978 | |
Project A Part II | Hong Kond Police Force constables and Marine Police sailors | 1987 | ||
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls | Christopher Lee | Sherlock Holmes | Mk.I CCLE | 1992 |
Neil McCarthy | Capt. James Morrison | |||
Steven Gurney | Gugliamo Marconi | |||
Ron Smerczak | Lt. Grisholm | Mk.I MLE | ||
British soldiers | Mk.I MLE and CCLE | |||
Michael Collins | IRA forces | 1996 | ||
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen | British soldiers and Fantom's men | Mk.I | 2003 |
Television
Show Title | Actor | Character | Episode | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
Fiery Roads (Ognennye dorogi) | British soldiers | Mk.I; Ep.9 | 1983 |
L42A1 / Enfield Enforcer
The L42A1 is the last Enfield rifle to see service. Converted from existing No. 4 Mk. I (T) rifles and rechambered for 7.62x51mm NATO, the L42A1 served in the British military until 1992, when they were replaced by the L96A1.
The Enfield Enforcer was a police version of the L42A1. It differed from L42 by having more sporterised buttstock with semi-pistol grip and integral cheeckpiece.
Specifications
(1970-1992)
- Type: Sniper Rifle
- Caliber: 7.62x51mm NATO
- Weight: 9.7 lbs (4.4 kg)
- Length: 42.2 in (107.1 cm)
- Barrel length: 27.5 in (69.9 cm)
- Capacity: 10-round box
- Fire Modes: Bolt-Action
Film
Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
Shootout at Lokhandwala | Mumbai police snipers | 2007 | ||
Doomsday | British Army sniper | With thumbhole stock and Harris bipod | 2008 |
Video Game
Game Title | Appears as | Note | Release Date |
---|---|---|---|
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault | appears only in Breakthrough expansion pack | 2002 | |
Hitman: Contracts | 2004 | ||
Manhunt | 2004 | ||
Insurgency: Modern Infantry Combat | 2007 | ||
Manhunt 2 | 2007 |
Ishapore 2A1
The Ishapore 2A1 is an Indian version of the Lee-Enfield chambered in 7.62x51mm.
Film
Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
Sholay | Brigands | 1975 |
Lee-Speed Sporter
The Lee-Speed was popular with British officers and other hunters who wanted a fine rifle, but couldn't afford the expensive double barrel rifles made by Purdy, Holland & Holland and other famous, and expensive, British gun makers. The Lee-Speed was popular because it fired the easily obtainable British service round (.303 British), though it was also manufactured in other calibers. The Lee-Speed had the same action as the Lee-Enfield bolt action rifle, which allowed many British hunters and colonists in Africa to obtain spare parts and ammunition from British Army units based in Britain's African colonies during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Film
Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
King Kong | Robert Armstrong | Carl Denham | . | 1933 |
Billion Dollar Brain | Karl Malden | Leo Newbegin | . | 1967 |
The Ghost and the Darkness | Val Kilmer | Col. John Patterson | . | 1996 |
The Mummy Returns | Rachel Weisz | Evelyn Carnahan | . | 2001 |
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Christian Bale | Mandras | . | 2001 |
King Solomon's Mines | Gavin Hood | Bruce McNabb | . | 2004 |
The Wolfman | Benicio del Toro | Lawrence Talbot | . | 2010 |
I Declare War | nickel-plated | 2012 | ||
Hold the Dark | Maureen Thomas | Innkeeper | 2018 |
Television
Show Title | Actor | Character | Episode | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
Midsomer Murders | Tony Haygarth | Jack Tewson | "King's Crystal" (S10E03) | 2007 |
The Man in the High Castle | Rufus Sewell | SS Obergruppenführer John Smith | Episode 10 | 2015 |
Anime
Title | Character | Note | Date |
---|---|---|---|
Case Closed: Full Score of Fear | Takumi Fuwa | 2008 |
Sporterized Lee-Enfield Rifles
Film
Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
Let's Not Get Angry (Ne nous fâchons pas) | Sporterized; Seen in The Colonel's apartments | 1966 | ||
Death Hunt | Carl Weathers | Sundog/George Washington Lincoln Brown | Sporterized SMLE | 1981 |
Death Hunt | Ed Lauter | Hazel | Sporterized SMLE | 1981 |
Crocodile Dundee | Paul Hogan | Mick Dundee | Sporterized SMLE | 1985 |
Linda Kozlowski | Sue Charlton | |||
The Emerald Forest | A native hunter | Sporterized | 1985 | |
Crocodile Dundee II | Paul Hogan | Mick Dundee | Sporterized SMLE | 1988 |
Linda Kozlowski | Sue Charlton | |||
River of Death | Michael Dudikoff | John Hamilton | Sporterized | 1989 |
Charlotte Gray | John Bennett | Gerard | Sporterised SMLE | 2001 |
October Gale | Patricia Clarkson | Helen Matthews | Sporterized SMLE | 2014 |
Young Ones | Michael Shannon | Ernest Holm | Sporterized No.1 Mk.III*, combination gun with Maverick Model 88 | 2014 |
Kodi Smit-McPhee | Jerome Holm | |||
Nicholas Hoult | Flem Lever |
Howell Automatic Rifle
The Howell Automatic Rifle was a prototype semi-automatic conversion of the Lee-Enfield Rifle designed during the Great War by Nigel Howell. It came in the 10 round capacity of the original rifle or a new 20 round capacity (which was also subsequently issued as a high-capacity "trench" magazine for standard SMLE). It had an external gas tube (that operated the bolt in the brutally simple method of a curved cam that literally rotated and pushed the original, largely unmodified bolt) and a pistol grip on the stock.
Video Games
Game Title | Appears as | Note | Release Date |
---|---|---|---|
Battlefield 1 | Part of the Apocalypse DLC | 2016 |
Turner Semi-Automatic SMLE Conversion
In the 1940s, American engineer Russell J. Turner developed a prototype semi-automatic conversion for the SMLE. The conversion utilized a long piston gas system and was hammer-fired. Unlike contemporary semi-automatic Lee-Enfield conversions, the weapon had no external gas tube.
Video Games
Game Title | Appears as | Note | Release Date |
---|---|---|---|
Battlefield V | Turner SMLE | 2018 |
Charlton Automatic Rifle
The Charlton Automatic Rifle, like the Howell Automatic Rifle and the Turner SMLE, is another automatic conversion of the Lee-Enfield rifle. Designed by New Zealander Philip Charlton (with assistance from Maurice Field) in the early days of WWII, the Charlton is fully automatic and can also use Lee-Metford rifles as a base. Charlton and Field presented a prototype of the conversion to the government in 1941, and received a contract to convert Lee-Metford and Enfield rifles into automatic rifles for Home Guard use. However, production ran into several difficulties, particularly with magazines, with the intended modified Bren gun magazines arriving late and then found out to be unable to fit. Most Charltons thus only had standard Lee-Enfield 10-round magazines and only the last 50 guns delivered had the 30-round Bren Gun magazines. The Australian government also contacted Charlton to convert their rifles, resulting in prototypes done by the Australian company Electrolux with a different external desgn.
Video Games
Game Title | Appears as | Note | Release Date |
---|---|---|---|
Call of Duty: WWII | "NZ-41" | Added in 2018 update | 2017 |
Additional Information
Background & Usage
Despite being removed from frontline service in 1957, the Lee-Enfield saw extensive use as a secondary infantry rifle with reserve forces as well as use as a sniper rifle by the British military. In 2008, nations like India, Pakistan, Nepal and Canada still use the Lee-Enfield rifle as a standard issue rifle to police forces and to reserve military units. In the case of Canada, the Canadian Rangers used the Lee-Enfield No.4 rifle as their standard-issue rifle till 2018 when they were replaced by the purpose built C-19, but the Lee-Enfield will not be fully phased out till 2020. In the case of India and Pakistan, the Lee-Enfield is used by the police forces of both nations with the Indians utilizing a 7.62mm NATO version of the No.1 MkIII* rifle called the Indian 2A/2A1 rifle. Australia still manufacture/convert Lee-Enfield's as hunting/plinking weapons in a range of calibres from 7.62mm NATO and the Soviet 7.62x39mm M43 with Australian International Arms (AIA) manufacturing modern versions of the Lee-Enfield rifle for the civilian firearms market.
The Lee-Enfield rifle saw extensive use in many military conflicts from the late 19th century to the present day (easily outstripping the length of service the Mosin-Nagant rifle has achieved) with Lee-Enfields being used in conflicts like the Second Boer War, the First World War, the Second World War, the Korean War, the Malayan Emergency, the Suez Canal Crisis, and the Mau Mau Uprising. The Lee-Enfield was also extensively used by the Mujahideen during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1970s and 1980s. The Lee-Enfield has also seen extensive use in the hands of insurgents and warring factions recently in nations like Nepal (where both Nepalese Government forces and Maoist guerrillas used the Lee-Enfield rifle), Afghanistan, Iraq, India (with both the Indian government forces and the Naxalite Maoist rebels being seen armed with SMLEs and various firearms) and the Solomon Islands (where many of the warring factions in the Solomon Islands were seen armed with Lee-Enfield No.4 rifles stolen from military and police armories during the civil unrest that occurred on the islands during the late 1990s/early 2000s).
Unlike Mauser-derived bolt-action rifles (with their 5 round internal magazines and "cock on opening" bolt systems), the Lee-Enfield series of bolt-action rifles and carbines have a 10-round detachable magazine and a "cock on closing" bolt system, which allowed a well-trained rifleman to fire between 15 to 30 aimed rounds in under 1 minute. Between 1895 and 1957, around 17 million Lee-Enfields have been produced and, as of 2010; are still in circulation today.
Although the Lee-Metford was originally designed to reloaded by replacing the magazine, in practice they were issued with two magazines of which one was chained to the rifle and the other issued as a spare. By the adoption of the Lee-Enfield this had decreased to one magazine per rifle, which was refilled using 5-round stripper clips.
See Also
- Royal Small Arms Factory - A list of weapons produced by RSAF Enfield