Snider Butt Markings
I have here a 1872 BSAco mkIII two band snider on the but,asides from the normal WD cartouche it has the following DC 24 B.B. Could anyone tell me the battalion/regiment it belonged to. Regards, Mike.
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24 Kent Battalion was headquartered in Chatham ,ON in 1885, Authorised strength of 296 in 6 Compaies. Disbanded 25 Nov 1892, raised 14 Sept 1866.
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Mike: The DC is likely a "Dominion of Canada" mark - is it enclosed within a diamond-shaped border such as this, by any chance? (That was most common .... but not invariable.) Canada received 6000...
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No it is just a plain D.C. and the B.B. underneath it are definately Bs the fittings are all iron the but plate only has inspection marks and no rack numbers. Regards, Mike.
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Would the markings of this Snider-Enfield indicate that it belonged to the 24th Kent Battalion of Infantry? (Additional pics at http://devan.jalbum.net/Model%201853%20Snider%20Enfield%20Mk%20II/)...
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A "cut and paste" of the information on the 'web.archive.org' archived pages of the regrettably now-defunct 'regiments.org' website produces this table outlining the history of the unit....
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Good info. There's also an interesting history of the 24th at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/canada/kent13.htm . It is a synopsis of a paper by Major James C. Weir and includes some...
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All those names ! It is as if the whole of the Thames Estuary area had been uplifted and dropped 3,000 miles westward. To this ancient Briton it seem eerie.
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Bill Curtisra wrote: All those names ! It is as if the whole of the Thames Estuary area had been uplifted and dropped 3,000 miles westward. To this ancient Briton it seem eerie. Smack in the heart of...
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