Sherbrooke 53rd Regiment
I have been doing some digging to find out some history on a Snider that has been in my family for at least 5 generations, and had markings assigning it to the 53rd. One of the quotes from the DND...
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I think they refer to the Long Lee rifle. Canada still had the Snider-Enfield in use at the time, a few Martini's as you know, but over seas we were using the Long Lee Enfield. We switched to the Ross...
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The militia was rearmed with the Long Lee in 1897. The diamond jubilee was in 1897 as was the 30th anniversary of confederation so the 1896 date could be a misprint.
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Well, the long weekend has kept me away until now. Thanks for the posts. Does anyone have a pic of the Long Lee that they can post? I have found a contact number for the Sherbrooke Regiment, and I may...
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Here is a picture with 2 Long Lee's in it. Grant and George firing theirs in Alberta last week.-Ryan
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Undoubtedly the reference is to the new "Rifle, Magazine, Lee-Enfield" adopted by Britain in 1896 as a modification of the Magazine Lee-Metford rifle - adopted in 1888. The MLE was essentially the...
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I got an answering machine from the DND site. I think you are both right about the date being a misprint, and have cleared up the Snider question with the Long Lee rifle information.Since this is...
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It would have been the P'53 Enfield rifles in the early Fenian days and the Snider-Enfield towards the last parts of the Fenians.-Ryan
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Found a neat picture of a British soldier over an Fenian grave. May, 1870. I can't tell if it is a Snider or not.
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I think it is, it looks like a breech block hinge pin on the side ahead of the hammer, rather than the percussion nipple of the P'53 rifle/musket.Here is another group with Snider's, I think someone...
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There are many pictures of Canadian Militia armed with Snider-Enfields ... because that was our primary/official military longarm for much longer than in any other part of the Empire - 1867-1897 - and...
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Ryan:Looks like you need to size that photo down (and possibly also the one posted by fireonethree) - the text portions of messages on this thread have really expanded horizontally!(I don't have...
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Done, they were fine on my screen so I did not notice.Hows that workin' for ya?-Ryan
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