114 
G.B. Trotter 
178 Skennerton I.D., Australian Service Bayonets Privately Published, 
QLD. 1976, p.17. Dominion Returns,1904, 620 Pattern 1903 
bayonets were listed as on order for W.A. These are the 
accompanying bayonet for the SMLE Mk. L 
•» Battye Library, Votes and Proceedings of W.A. Parliament 1884, 
1889. Commandants Report 1883,1888. 
I»I Battye Library, Votes and Proceedings of W.A. Parliament 1889. 
Commandants Report 1888. These tubes were used by the recruits 
of the Perth, Fremantle, Guildford and Geraldton Corps. 
Battye Library, Votes and Proceedings of W.A. Parliament 1897. 
Commandants Report 1896. 
Battye Library, Newspaper Archives, Albany Advertiser, 
November 1895. 
>« Battye Library, Votes and Proceedings of W.A. Parliament. 
Commandants Reports 1898 - 1900. 
> M Treasury Department Archives, Reports of Public Accounts 1896 
-1902. 
'« Jones, D.,"Cadets and Military Drill" (Chap. 2) in Bessant R., and 
Maunders, D„ (eds). Mother State and Her Little Ones, Centre for 
Youth and Community Studies, Melbourne, 1987. The cadet 
enrolment in 1898 was 155 Senior and 276 Junior. 
'■* Battye Library, Commonwealth Parliamentary Acts," Cadet Force 
Australia 1903", adoption by Secondary School Senior Cadets of 
.303 M-E (single-loader), p. 3, and 1908, adoption by Senior cadets 
of M L-E, p.2. 
187 Op cit., Purdon, p. 31 (see footnote 11). 
Battye Library, Votes and Proceedings of W.A. Parliament 1882, 
Report. 
Battye Library, Votes and Proceedings of W.A. Parliament 1882, 
Report. 
Battye Library, W.A. Yearbook. Military Returns 1883 - 1884. 
1,1 Battye Library, Votes and Proceedings of W.A. Parliament 1876. 
Despatch No. 25. 
Battye Library, Votes and Proceedings of W.A. Parliament 1889. 
Commandants Report 1888. 
Battye Library, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), 1887, p. 227. 
m Battye Library, CO 18 210. Reel 1707,1888. 
1,5 Battye Library, W,A. Yearbook and Statistical Registers, Militarv 
Returns 1884 - 1895. ’ 
'* Battye Library, W.A. Yearbook 1893 - 1894. Military Returns. 
' ,7 Battye Library, Votes and Proceedings of W.A. Parliament 1882. 
Commandants Report 1881. 
Battye Library, CSO 4123/1885, Minute paper 9th October 1885." 
101 Rifles, B.L., M-H, Mk II, Short Butts". Votes and Proceedings 
of W.A. Parliament 1885-86. Commandants Report 31st 
December 1885. The 101 rifles may have been part of the larger 
order received in 1886. 
Battye Library, Votes and Proceedings of W.A. Parliament 1887. 
Commandants Report 1886-87. This order may have included the 
order for 101 rifles of 1885. 
700 Battye Library, Votes and Proceedings of W.A. Parliament 1887. 
Commandants Report 1887. 
201 Battye Library, CO 18 218, Reel 2664,1893. 
202 Battye Library, CO 18 210, Reel 1707,1888. 
203 Battye Library, Votes and Proceedings of W.A. Parliament 1899. 
Commandants Report 1899. 
2IU The precise fate of the rifles accompanying the contingents is 
uncertain. The archival record allows for a number of possible 
explanations. The Dominion Returns of 1904 show that the 900 
M-Ms were reduced by 272 to 628. The approximately 1434 M-Es, 
(1150 M-Es and c.284 Unofficial Conversions), were reduced by 
c.606 to 828. The total losses are therefore 272 plus c.606, or c.878, 
virtually the exact total of 872 NCOs and men of the six 
contingents. The M-Es however, could also have been removed 
from the Returns list due to General Order 263, of 16th Nov. 1903, 
which required the W.A. military authorities to allocate 600 M-Es 
to the rifle clubs. Unless firm evidence is located, this matter must 
remain inconclusive. 
205 Army Museum Archives, General Orders 1903 - 1909. No 
Martini-Metford rifles were offered for sale even though they 
were available. 
1887. Corporal Rush is referred to several times during this period 
in various Returns and Reports. 
m Battye Library, Acc. 527/243/2, Minute, 24th August 1878. 
m Comments by two former owners of these rifles, related to author 
in 1990 and 1994. 
207 Battye Library, Acc. 527/243/12, Letter 19th November 1878. 
2 ”* Battye Library, Votes and Proceedings of W.A. Parliament 1878 - 
