Go to youtube and type in passchendaele very good move. its about some canadians in ww1

The Lighthorsemen is also a great movie with lots of SMLE's

The last sequence in Lighthorsemen when they charge the Turkish position--really great!

Ronn

There is also a movie called "How Went the Day?" about the English Home Guard in early WWII. There are a number of Enfield Mark I#3s and at least one Pattern 14/17 (with a stripe around the butt-1917?). It was OK if you had 1 1/2 hr to kill.
DocAitch

Picked up The Lighthorsemen,Breaker Morant,Passchendaele,and General Patton awhile ago all great movies.General Patton had some clips of the brits marching in to Berlin Pipes,drums,and Smles up close interesting to watch.

Hey Max Armour,

Where abouts in the South Okanagan are you, and where is your museum. I'd like to take a look at some old guns. I'm in Kelowna

Penticton and that is just a heading everyone gets after so many postings it will change based on more posts, I thought the same thing until i looked at other profiles.There are alot of people here with Museums i thought at first.

Look for "Dad's Army". Lots of P14 Enfields, a Lewis LMG, and a M1928 Thompson. And the captain's Webley revolver.

For a comedy series, the series is historically very accurate, and especially in the first few seasons where they don't have uniforms (only LDV armbands for Local Defence Volunteer), drill with broomsticks, and only have 1 gun in the entire platoon so they use whatever weapons they can find when on patrol. Later they are issued with uniforms and P14s, but have so little ammunition they have to use one of the unit member's black market connections to buy replacements.

The cast had mostly veterans of WW2, and one was a veteran of WW1 and had served in the Home Guard during WW2. With such a pool of talent available, the show is still very entertaining.

I know the bloke who was the Armorer for Gallipoli, Light Horseman and Breaker Morant - he supplied all the weapons for all films; I bought some nice bits and bobs from him and had chatted for many hours when last we met about the details in all the films. I handled the Hooked Quillion bayo that was used in Gallipoli ... it was the only one on set and was passed around for all the shots where a hooky was showing.

He told me a bunch of other funny details from the films that would surprise ...

Tiki.

And in one scene you can see it being attached to a square profiled Ishapore nose cap

Yep noticed that too

Dang it Netflix doesn't have Lighthorseman

I got mine from evilbay about $10 CAN it came from a guy in AUZ i had to make sure my player would run Region 4 DVDs before i ordered it though.