SMLE serial number 247886

[snayperskaya]

Real longshot but has anyone got a SMLE with this serial number?.

[Gazza]

I actually laughed out loud at this

Now if you had asked.......do you have the cup Christ drank from, I've got that in the shed

Good luck with your quest my son

[ukrifleman]

I wish you luck with your quest.

If you do find it, don't forget to buy a lottery ticket asap.

ukrifleman

[Alpha1]

You have got more chance of winning the lottery.

[TomH]

Perhaps there is method in our ruskie friends apparent madness, he hasn't said why yet.

[Alpha1]

May be some one nicked it of him and he is trying to retrieve it or may be he left it on a firing point and is to embarrassed to admit it to is fellow shooters.

[TomH]

Perhaps he has found a component on the range with that serial number and wishes to return it to it's rightful owner?

[Gazza]

Old Boris could have got wind of a famous soldier having this rifle and for the sake of a quick note on here could potentially get hold of it (super long shot I know) He could then offer the going rate for said rifle (400 quid) then whip up some cleverly gathered providence and clean up at the auction house.
Barbados or the Caymen Islands would then be but a breath away with guffaws of laughter being heard across the land till the money ran out

The russian shyster!

[snayperskaya]

I have my grandfathers notebook from WWI when he served in the 6th Battalion K.S.L.I in France and Belgium from 1915 to 1918 (including the Battle of the Somme and Passchendaele etc, wounded on four occasions) and sometime in 1918 he transferred to the Machine Gun Corps and ended up in Duren, Germany, as part of the Allied Occupation of the Rhineland.

Anyway, at the front of the notebook it has the words "Rifle Number" and the serial number 247886........hence why I asked the one in God knows how many million to one question of whether anyone owned that rifle.
I know the chances of it still being in existence are practically zero but stranger things happen!

I'm in the process of researching his war records etc and today I found out he had a brother (so my Great Uncle) that was killed at the Battle of Hooge on the 8th of September 1915 aged 19 whilst serving with the 1st Battalion K.S.L.I and his name is on the Ypres/Menin Gate memorial.

[TomH]

The Lee Enfield section of Milsurps.com might be a better bet to ask the question. Probably about 1 in 5 million odds in finding it. But I'd think you would be interested in which factory produced it, was it a MKIII or conversion to Mark III etc. The fact that it's a 6 digit number rather than 4 numerals and letter might mean it was a Battalion rack number and not serial number?