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Browse via Object (Ref Nᵒ 1519) For a higher quality version, please click the thumbnail above ** Filesize = 0.20 MB **   Date   Friday 17th June 2016     Promoter   REMEMBER AND REFLECT (ARDS AND NORTH DOWN)     Location   Comber Collection Ref   A - 006    Collection ID 101 Objects 11 Description   Artefact Relating to William Thomas Magee Classification   Artefact Unique Object ID 1519 Description   Artefact - WW1 era Vetali rifle - pictured from several angles Notice: Undefined variable: OBJECT_Description in /var/www/html/LivingLegacies/DigitalArchive/Browse/Object/Summary_OfObjectDetails.php on line 34     Additional Information   "This rifle was brought in on the Clyde, as part of the UVF gun-running. My father died in October there and we cleared out his attic and came across the rifle. I had never seen it, but he showed it to a couple of grandsons. The police were able to authenticate it as an antique, they didn’t need to decommission it, its safe to be transported. The UVF stamp on it here- and there’s a battalion stamp on it. My granda was a farmer in Fermanagh in 1913, he would have been in the UVF. He never went off to war though. He was in the Lodge and I think he was a B Special. (bayonet which was brought along with rifle was confirmed as a French bayonet- Volunteers machined French bayonets to fit their rifles when they had lost their own). "     Other objects in the same collection Artefact Artefact Artefact Artefact Artefact Artefact Artefact Artefact Artefact Artefact Artefact

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