The British Royal Army Guns Behind the South African Stand in The Battle of The Somme. In July 1916, the 1st South African Infantry Brigade fought with the standard British kit, which included the Short Magazine Lee-Enfield rifle—a 10-round, bolt-action weapon famed for its “mad minute” rate of fire. Was this weapon a game changer for Afrikaner soldiers, or a backbreaking burden in the close, muddy, splintered terrain in Delville Wood? Watch the full episode here https://youtu.be/jEIowykrvrg | H