About Me
- Hugh Walter
- No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
- I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.
Monday, October 25, 2021
P is for Pattern - 1907 Lee Enfield Sword Bayonet
To paraphrase Blue Peter, and further to the second-previous post - "here's one I shot earlier", the longer bayonet
of the infantry, this has a non-standard, green canvas 1950's-dated take on the
WWII frog which should take the short spike bayonet used in the European theater and which
carried-on in service with the Lee-Enfield's
until it's replacement with the FN-licensed
SLR, and I think the metal of the
scabbard has been polished up from gun-blacked, possibly for ceremonial duties?To Paraphrase Sunday's Post - This IS the
long 17-inch 'sword' bayonet of WWI infantry charges across no-man's-land AND that
of the 'Desert Rats' of the 8th army in those iconic press-shots (and Airfix artwork) of World War II!
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