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      British pattern 1907 bayonets marked to the royal air force: an archaeo-historical investigation

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      Author(s)
      Bennett, Julian
      Ballard, J.M.
      Date
      2022-11-14
      Source Title
      Arms & Armour
      Print ISSN
      1749-6268
      Publisher
      Routledge
      Volume
      19
      Issue
      2
      Pages
      198 - 219
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      A known total of 83 World War One period Pattern 1907 bayonets for the ‘Rifle, Short, Magazine, Lee-Enfield, Mark III’ have pommel markings indicating issue to the Royal Air Force, formed on 1st April 1918. They bear alpha-numeric serial markings best interpreted as stock-taking marks, suggesting a maximum total of 70,000 were allocated for use by that air force. The written sources indicate that from at least 1922 to 1937, bayonets and the rifles to go with them were a regular part of an aircraftman’s equipment. Neither these nor a search of unpublished documents in the National Archives and the British Library provide a possible explanation why these weapons would be issued to the Royal Air Force, suggesting an archaeo-historical approach was more appropriate. This article sets out our results and conclusions on the subject.
      Keywords
      Pattern 1907 bayonets
      Royal air force
      T.E. Lawrence
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/111731
      Published Version (Please cite this version)
      https://doi.org/10.1080/17416124.2022.2134288
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