Something has been bothering me about the figure of 26,000 Bren's being lost in Franceicon.By May 1940 the size of the BEF was 10 divisions.They would have had an approximate issue of 1,000 LMG's, this included Lewis guns, which despite all that is written, were still very much in evidence.I have spoken to many veterans, who never went near a Bren, until they returned to Englandicon after the evacuation.So if we do the maths, that is 10.000 and I have based this on figures for later in the war, I believe the establishment of a BEF division was less.So if the establishment figure is 10,000, why were 26,000 lost, even taking into account loss and damage it seems a great divide between the two figures.The other odd thingis, that IF the Germans had got such a large amount, why did they not use them in any large numbers? A few seem to have been used in the Channel Islands on the Atlantic wall, but I have never seen mention made of their use elswhere, when they used the Dutch M20 Lewis Gun as an example.I agree with what Peter has said, about a lot of equipment being captured at depot's and ports, much of this gear never reached the front line troops.So has any body got any thoughts on this?