Inert .303 British Mk VI Round – G 1916 WW1 Lee-Enfield Cartridge SAA Stores ref

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It remained in widespread service through the Russo-Japanese War

Ammunition of this era was widely issued for use in the Lee-Metford and early Lee-Enfield rifles

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Inert .303 British Mk VI Round – G 1916 WW1 Lee-Enfield Cartridge SAA Stores refOriginal inert . 303 British Mk VI cartridge with G 16 headstamp, manufactured in 1916 during the First World War. The G factory code is associated with Greenwood & Batley Ltd., Leeds, England, a major wartime engineering and munitions contractor that produced . 303 ammunition components and cartridges for the British war effort. The Mk VI designation identifies the earlier round nosed . 303 service loading, largely superseded by the pointed Mk VII