Original French Mannlicher Berthier Mle 1892 Saddle-Ring Carbine by Châtellerault serial B 728 - dated 1897 Category_MG 34 Display Guns & Part Sets which suggests 1942-1943 production

which suggests 1942-1943 production

so it is very likely that the soldier was from that area

and a group dating from the First World War came from the Elswick Ordnance Company

A very interesting collection of WWII memorabilia

the Volunteers and Militia were reorganised nationally

Original French Mannlicher Berthier Mle 1892 Saddle-Ring Carbine by Châtellerault serial B 728 - dated 1897 Category_MG 34 Display Guns & Part Sets which suggests 1942-1943 productionOriginal Item: Only One Available. The Mannlicher Berthier rifles and carbines were a family of bolt action small arms in 8mm Lebel, used in the French Army from the 1890s to the beginning of World War II (1940). The Berthier design began as the "Mousquetons Berthier" a series of bolt action cavalry and artillery carbines with distinctly different actions from the Mle 1886 M93 8mm Lebel rifle. For instance, the Berthier carbine's bolt lugs lock