Lee Enfield No.4 spike bayonet - how often was it used?

had a veteran tell me the only thing they were go for was holding candles

 

I was told by Godfrey Yardley that on the evening of 24th March 1945 Lt Hugh Clark led his 19 Platoon, B Company, 2 OXF & BUCKS on a bayonet charge to retake the bridge over the River Issel ajacent to Hamminkeln Station. They also cleared a nearby house of German troops.

Hugh Clark’s platoon were gliderborne troops and presumably equipped with the spike bayonet.

 

The "pig sticker" was still in use by the RAF in the early 1950s. I was issued with one along with the 1917 American manufactured LEs. These LEs were in the large batch of ex Great War rifles sent by FDR in the dark days of 1940 and before Lease Lend was initiated in March 1941.

Under Lend Least,just under 1.2 million .303 rifles manufactured by US arsenals were loaned to British and Commonwealth forces.

Apparently this includes the LE 4 Mk 1 which was only manufactured in North America by the Long Branch Arsenal in Canada and by Savage -Stevens Firearms in the US.