British soldier

[martin guerre]

Hi guys,i found this soldier in a attic this morning...seems to be a WWI British soldier...is it ?
Please what are your thoughts..
Thanks for your time
Martin

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[RMR]

He seems to have a lot of buttons on his tunic British tunics had 5 also his ammo pouches look different to me maybe a commonwealth soldier.RMR

[martin guerre]

Eight buttons on the tunic.... commonwealth soldier....or US soldier perhaps ?

[martin guerre]

Canadian perhaps ...

[damien C.]

I dont think he's WW1 British or Commonwealth, does anybody know what type of rifle he has? if they were trying to depict a British or Commonwealth soldier you would expect the rifle to be a Lee Enfield.

[paul kennedy]

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It's not a Lee Enfield. It also isn't a Canadian Ross Rifle, or the 1914 Enfield issued to British troops.
Strange....I know he's not French, but the rifle does look a bit like an 1886 Lebel.

[staples57]

Not Canadian!
Canadian WW1 uniforms had 7 buttons.
The Rifle doesn't look like a UK or Canadian rifle either.

Looks like a US Soldier.

[martin guerre]

Interesting
Ok for the rifle....could be possible that the maker don't care about the rifle and made it only just as a rifle with no speacial model in head...
just a thought..

[Beau Brummel.]

I think Martin could be correct and there Is a certain amount of artistic license at play here; from the way the rifle Is positioned behind the soldier It seems purposely secondary to the composition. It bears a slight resemblence to a P14rifle but 'slight' Is the operative word.

I suspect the piece Is French and that It portrays a British, US or Canadian serviceman, far from home, peering back from whence he came.

Is It signed around the base Martin? If not It's possibly signed under the wooden base.

Whatever, It Is a marvelous piece and one I would be very happy to own. If It's ever time for him to make another journey please let me know Martin.

Yours, Guy.

[Bond]

Whatever, It Is a marvelous piece and one I would be very happy to own. If It's ever time for him to make another journey please let me know Martin.

Yours, Guy.

Already listed for sale here.

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=613580

Very nice item

Jerry

[Marc Sherriff]

Looks like a typical Russian pose!

Marc