Even so, the Army still sought additional rifles for training use in the United States. In late 1917, another source became available when Mark II Ross .303 British rifles were deemed expendable ...

303 Ross “straight pull” rifles, after the Canadians had been re-armed with British Short Magazine Lee-Enfield (SMLE) .303 rifles during World War I. Some of these Ross rifles were used in ...

Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. So it was with the Ross rifle, the weapon that Canadian soldiers took with them to the start of the First World War a century ...

When soldiers in the throes of battle discard their rifles and pluck a different weapon from the hands of dead allies, there’s clearly a serious problem. So it was with the Ross rifle ...

The weapon, a .38-caliber long rifle was used by William Ross during the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812, the assistant to the curator of the Confederate Museum Joseph Ricci said during a ...

When soldiers in the throes of battle discard their rifles and pluck a different weapon from the hands of dead allies, there’s clearly a serious problem, writes John Ward of the Canadian Press ...