Anzacs is a 1985 Australian miniseries. Set during the First World War, it follows several Australians as they enlist in the Australian Army, from joining up to homecoming, and the battles that made the Anzac name famous, such as Gallipoli, the Somme, Passchendaele and Hamel.
The following weapons can be seen in the miniseries Anzacs:
Allied Weapons
Rifles
Lee-Enfield No.1 Mk.III*
The main weapon of the Anzacs is the Lee-Enfield No.1 Mk.III*, including Martin "Marty" Barrington (Andrew Clarke), Flanagan (Jon Blake), Roly Collins (Christopher Cummins), Alec "Pudden" Parsons (Alec Wilson), Sgt. Tom MacArthur (Patrick Ward) and Dick Baker (Mark Hembrow).
Lee-Enfield No.1 Mk.III* - .303 British
Roly loads a .303 Mk VII round into his Lee-Enfield.
Roly trains with his Lee-Enfield on the rifle range.
Dick fires his Lee-Enfield at charging Turkish soldiers.
Dick with his Lee-Enfield, bayonet fixed, in the Lone Pine trenches at Gallipoli.
Marty at the Somme with his Lee-Enfield.
Flanagan (
Jon Blake) and Marty with their Lee-Enfield rifles as they search for Pudden, whom has gone AWOL.
Two Anzacs fire their Lee-Enfield rifles at attacking Germans in Amiens.
M1917 Enfield
American soldiers can at one point be seen drilling with M1917 Enfield rifles.
American troops march behind a Cambrai tank with their M1917 Enfields.
Machine Guns
Lewis Gun
Bluey (Peter Finlay) carries a Lewis Gun, which he mainly uses in a support role. Other soldiers that can be seen operating the weapon are Wilhelm "Kaiser" Schmidt (Shane Briant), Sergeant Tom MacArthur (Patrick Ward) and Carter (Peter Browne.
Bluey (
Peter Finlay) with his Lewis Gun as he talks with Lt. Harold Armstrong (
Tony Bonner) on the Somme battlefields.
Close-up of the Lewis Gun magazine and sight.
Bluey fires his Lewis Gun at Germans on the Hindenburg Line.
An injured Sgt. Tom MacArthur (
Patrick Ward) takes over on the Lewis Gun after Bluey is wounded by a grenade.
Wilhelm "Kaiser" Schmidt fires the Lewis Gun from the hip after recovering it from Sgt. MacArthur.
Bluey, cigarette in mouth, pours suppressive fire on a German bunker at Broodseinde Ridge, Passchendaele.
Bluey fires at attacking German soldiers in Amiens.
Carter (
Peter Browne) hoists the Lewis Gun on his shoulders after a successful attack in Hamel.