Historical Enfield Question

[Peter Laidler]

What an amazing picture.............. Is that a Boys rifle laying along the bottom edge?

My neighbours father who was captured in France with the Royal Berkshire Regiment remembers POW camp guards guarding Russian 'slave' POW's being armed with British No1 rifles and the guards in his own camp having Brens in the watchtowers. I have only ever seen one picture of Brens in use by German troops and that was on a twin AA mounting at the submarine base in France. It was in the near background and definately Brens with the curved .303" magazines. That goes some way to agreeing that they were used, albeit by the back end/rear echelon troops/Navy etc