Rifle converted to carbine, Snider-Enfield 1905 Cadet Carbine conversion from long rifle. Dated 1862 on side plate. No serial number but rack number is 108CC19. On top of butt-plate are rack markings" Old set QOR 602 (cancelled) which stood for Queen's Own Rifles, Rifle #602 and 108CC19. (CC is possibly Cadet Corps). The British .577 Snider-Enfield was a breech loading rifle. The American Jacob Snider invented the firearm action, and the Snider-Enfield was one of the most widely used of the Snider varieties. The British Army adopted it in 1866 as a conversion system for its ubiquitous Pattern 1853 Enfield muzzle-loading rifles, and used it until 1871 when the Martini-Henry rifle superseded it. The British Indian Army used the Snider-Enfield until the end of the nineteenth century.