gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Me - CAR -15)
Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2004-07-02 10:46 am

They must be MINE!

A crate of Martin-Henry rifles has been found in Nepal, and is up for sale.

These are the rifles that my great-grandfather, Drum-Major Jack Berry, first used when he was in the Devonshire Regiment . (Yes, he was a bandsman.. he also served in India and in the Boer War.. his medals (which I own) include campaign bars for the Siege of Ladysmith and Elandslaagte)