[piroque]

What you're describing it was an Enfield No5 jungle carbine

[Elderberry]

What you're describing it was an Enfield No5 jungle carbine

It may not have been the Jungle Carbine.

There were other Lee-Enfields

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I used to have one of them years ago. I found the lock time of the enfield compared to a Remington 700 was very slow.