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Lee-Enfield rifle series
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)
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hearts of the World | British soldiers | No. 1 Mk.III* | 1918 | |
| The Death Ray | Mk.I, seen on the ground | 1925 | ||
| 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 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 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 | ||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | Mk.I | 1953 | |
| The Bridge on the River Kwai | Japanese P.O.W. guards | Mk.III* and No.4 | 1957 | |
| And Quiet Flows the Don (Tikhiy Don) | French soldiers | Mk.I | 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Ferry to Hong Kong | Pirates | No.1 Mk.III | 1959 | |
| Yesterday's Enemy | Leo McKern | Max | 1959 | |
| 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 | |
| 55 Days at Peking | John Ireland | Sgt. Harry | Lee-Enfield Mk.I | 1963 |
| British and American troops | ||||
| 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 | ||
| Zulu | British soldiers | Mk.I* as Martini-Henry | 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, No.5 Jungle Carbine | |||
| British paratroopers | No.5 Jungle Carbine | |||
| Poppies Are Also Flowers | Brigands, Colonel Salem's men | No.1 Mk.III* and No.4 Mk.I | 1966 | |
| Let's Not Get Angry (Ne nous fâchons pas) | Seen in The Colonel's apartments | 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 | |
| Three to Go - Michael | Australian troops and guerilla fighters | No.4 | 1969 | |
| 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 |
| The Last Grenade | Various characters | No.V Jungle Carbine | 1970 | |
| Kelly's Heroes | U.S. soldier | No.4 | 1970 | |
| You Can't Win 'Em All | Greek soldiers | No.1 MkIII | 1970 | |
| Michael the Brave (Mihai Viteazul) | 1971 | |||
| The Stolen Train (Otkradnatiyat vlak) | Turkish border guard | No.4 | 1971 | |
| Young Winston | Sikh soldiers and British soldiers | Mk.I and Mk.I* | 1972 | |
| 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, No.5 | 1975 |
| Amitabh Bachchan | Jai | |||
| Amjad Khan | Gabbar | No.4 Mk.I | ||
| Gabbar's brigands | No.1 Mk.III, No.4 Mk.I | |||
| Paper Tiger | David Niven | Walter Bradbury | No.5 | 1975 |
| Paper Tiger | Ronald Fraser | Sgt. Forster | No.4 Mk.I | 1975 |
| Paper Tiger | Irene Tsu | Talah | No.5 | 1975 |
| Paper Tiger | Rebels | No.5 | 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 |
| The 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 | |
| The End of the Emperor of the Taiga (Konets imperatora taygi) | Solovyov's brigands | Mk.1 Carbine | 1978 | |
| From Hell to Victory | British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III* | 1979 | |
| Escape to Athena | Greek resistance fighter | No.4 Mk.I | 1979 | |
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | |
| Death Hunt | Carl Weathers | Sundog/George Washington Lincoln Brown | Sporterized SMLE | 1981 |
| Death Hunt | Ed Lauter | Hazel | Sporterized SMLE | 1981 |
| Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure | John Fujioka | Kamasuka | No.4 Mk.I | 1981 |
| Gandhi | British and Indian soldiers and (Nepalese) Gurkhas | 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 | 1983 | |
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | Oceanian soldiers | No.V Jungle Carbine | 1984 | |
| Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome | A biker | No.1 Mk.III* | 1985 | |
| Crocodile Dundee | Paul Hogan | Mick Dundee | Sporterized SMLE | 1985 |
| Linda Kozlowski | Sue Charlton | |||
| The Emerald Forest | A native hunter | Sporterized | 1985 | |
| Out of Africa | Several men in hunter camp | 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, Mk.I | 1987 | |
| The Beast of War | Steven Bauer | Taj | No.1 Mk.III* | 1988 |
| Afghan Mujahideen | ||||
| Crocodile Dundee II | Paul Hogan | Mick Dundee | Sporterized SMLE | 1988 |
| Linda Kozlowski | Sue Charlton | |||
| 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 |
| Marilyn Tokuda | Yoo | No.5 Jungle Carbine | ||
| Australian soldiers, Gurkha soldiers, Headhunters | No.1 Mk.III* | |||
| River of Death | Michael Dudikoff | John Hamilton | Sporterized | 1989 |
| River of Death | River pirates | Lee-Enfield No.1 Mk.III* | 1989 | |
| Afghan Breakdown | Mujaheddins | No.1 Mk.III*, No.4 Mk.I, No.5 Jungle Carbine | 1991 | |
| Shadow of the Wolf | Donald Sutherland | Henderson | No.4 Mk.I | 1992 |
| 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 |
| Richard III | British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III* | 1995 | |
| Michael Collins | British and IRA forces | Mk.III and Mk.I | 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 | ||
| The Lost World | Russell Yuen | Myar | 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 | |
| Charlotte Gray | John Bennett | Gerard | Sporterised SMLE | 2001 |
| 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 |
| The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen | British soldiers and Fantom's men | Mk.I | 2003 | |
| Dhoom | Police | 2004 | ||
| Curse of the Komodo | William Langlois | Prof. Nathan Phipps | Customized No.4 Mk.I | 2004 |
| Kokoda | 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 | 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Bravo V | Communist terrorists | No.5 Jungle Carbine | 2015 | |
| The Siege of Jadotville | Irish soldiers | 2016 | ||
| 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 | British soldiers | No.1 Mk.III* | 2017 | |
| Wonder Woman | Saïd Taghmaoui | Sameer | 2017 |
Television
| Show Title | Actor | Character | Episode | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The War Game | British police officers and survivors | No.4 Mk.I | 1965 | |
| Rat Patrol | British soldiers | 1966-1968 | ||
| Stawka wieksza niz zycie | British soldiers | 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* | |||
| Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman | In Lex's mansion on display behind glass | 1993-1997 | ||
| 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 | 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 | 2002-2010 | ||
| 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 | "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 | "In the Light" (S1E05) | 2010 |
| Kokoda | Australian soldiers | 2010 | ||
| Foyle's War - Season 7 | British soldiers | "The Russian House" (S7E1) | 2010 | |
| Falling Skies | Resistance fighters | 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 | ||||
| Birdsong | British soldiers | 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 | |
| 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 |
| Father Brown - Season 3 | Angus Wright | Col. St Clare | No.4 Mk.I; "The Sign of the Broken Sword" (S03E04) | 2015 |
| Father Brown - Season 3 | Alex Price | Sid Carter | No.4 Mk.I; "The Sign of the Broken Sword" (S03E04) | 2015 |
| Foyle's War - Season 9 | British soldiers | No.4 Mk.I; "High Castle" (S9E1) | 2015 | |
| Deadline Gallipoli | ANZAC soldiers | No.1 Mk.III* | 2015 | |
| Father Brown | Dylan Brown | Terry Mitchell | No.4 Mk.I; "The Penitent Man" (S05E15) | 2017 |
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 | |
| 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 | ||
| Medal of Honor: Heroes | "Enfield Rifle" | 2006 | ||
| The Royal Marines Commando | "Lee Enfield" | No.1 Mk.III | 2008 | |
| 9th Company: Roots of Terror | 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 | 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 | |
| Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades | 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 |
Animation
| Film Title | Character | Notation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantis, The Lost Empire | Vinnie and other mercenaries | No.1 Mk.III | 2001 |
Enfield Enforcer/L42A1 sniper rifle
Specifications
(1970-1990)
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spy Game | Brad Pitt | Tom Bishop | 2001 | |
| Shootout at Lokhandwala | Mumbai police snipers | 2007 | ||
| Doomsday | British Army sniper | With thumbhole stock and Harris bipod | 2008 | |
| State of Emergency | 2011 |
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 |
Howell Automatic Rifle
This was a semi-automatic conversion of the Lee-Enfield Rifle that came in the 10 round capacity of the original rifle or a new 20 round capacity. It had an external gas tube and a pistol grip on the stock. It was designed as a prototype during the Great War.
Video Games
| Game Title | Appears as | Note | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Battlefield 1 | Part of the Apocalypse DLC | 2016 |
Birmingham Small Arms 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 |
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 |
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 are still using the Lee-Enfield No.4 rifle as their standard-issue rifle. 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