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Lee-Enfield rifle, .303, with bayonet.

Thompson sub machine gun, .45.

STEN sub machine gun, 9mm.

BREN light machine gun, .303.

Webley pistol, .455 or .38 (for officers).

Browning Hi-Power pistol, 9mm (for paratroopers).

Lanchester sub machine gun, 9mm (for Royal Marines).

Kukri knife (for Gurkhas).

Mills 36 hand grenade, aka "Mills bomb."

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Austria-HungaryHandguns

M1870 Gasser

Rast-Gasser M1898

Roth-Steyr M1907

Steyr Mannlicher M1894

Steyr Mannlicher M1901

Dreyse M1907

Steyr M1912

Frommer Stop

Rifles

Steyr-Mannlicher M1895

Mannlicher-Schönauer

Machine Guns

Salvator-Dormus M1893

Schwazlose MG M.07/12

Skoda M1909 machine gun

Flamethrowers

Flammenwerfer M.16.

Kingdom of BelgiumHandguns

FN Browning M1903

FN Browning M1910

Rifles

Mauser Model 89

Albini rifle (Force Publique)

Machine Guns

Hotchkiss M1914

Lewis Gun

British Empire + CommonwealthHandguns
  • Webley Revolver
  • Webley Self-Loading .455" Mark I (Royal Navy, since 1911, and later Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Flying Corps)
  • M1911 .455 (Royal Flying Corps and Royal Navy, Limited use)
  • Colt New Service
  • Smith & Wesson M1917 revolver
  • Smith & Wesson Model 10
  • Smith & Wesson Triple Lock

Rifles

  • Lee-Enfield
  • Lee-Metford
  • Pattern 1914 Enfield
  • Martini-Enfield
  • Martini-Henry
  • Ross rifle
  • Winchester Model 1894 (Royal Flying Corps, Limited use)

Machine Guns

  • Vickers machine gun
  • Maxim gun
  • Lewis Gun
  • Hotchkiss Mark I

Grenades

  • Grenade, No 1 Hales
  • Rifle grenades, 2, 3, 4 Hales
  • No.s 5, 23, 36 Mills
  • No. 6 Grenade
  • No.s 8, 9 Double Cylinder Jam Tin
  • No. 13 Battye
  • No. 15 Ball grenade
  • No. 27 Smoke Grenade
  • No. 34 Egg grenade

Swords

  • 1897 Pattern
  • 1908 and 1912 Pattern Cavalry Swords
Kingdom of BulgariaHandguns

Luger P08

Rifles

Gewehr 1888

Steyr-Mannlicher M1895

Machine guns

Maschinengewehr 08

Empire of JapanHandguns

Type 26 Revolver

Rifles

Type 30 rifle

Type 38 Rifle

Type 44 Cavalry Rifle

Swords

kyu guntō

French RepublicHandguns

Modèle 1892 revolver

MAS 1873 revolver

Ruby pistol

Rifles

Lebel Model 1886 rifle

Berthier M1907-15 and M1916

Meunier rifle

Machine Guns

  • St. Étienne Mle 1907
  • Hotchkiss M1909 Benet-Mercie machine gun
  • Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun
  • Chauchat LMG
German EmpireHandguns

M1879 Reichsrevolver

Luger P08

Mauser C96

Beholla pistol

Dreyse M1907

Rifles

Gewehr 88

Gewehr 98

Mondragón rifle

Machine Guns

Maschinengewehr 08

Bergmann MG15 nA Gun

Madsen machine gun

Submachine guns

MP18

Anti-tank Rifles

Mauser Anti-tank Rifle

Grenades

Model 24 grenade

Flamethrowers

Kleinflammenwerfer

Grossflammenwerfer

Wechselapparat

Kingdom of GreeceHandguns

Nagant M1895

Rifles

Mannlicher-Schönauer

Kingdom of ItalyHandguns

Glisenti Model 1910

Bodeo Model 1889

Rifles

Carcano

M1870 Italian Vetterli

Machine Guns

Villar-Perosa

Fiat-Revelli Modello 14

Submachine Guns

Beretta Model 1918

Kingdom of MontenegroHandguns

M1870 Gasser

Rifles

Berdan Rifle

Ottoman EmpireHandguns

Smith & Wesson Revolver

FN Browning M1903

Mauser C96

Rifles

Mauser Model 93

Gewehr 88 (Sent by Germany at the end of the war)

Mauser 98 (Sent by Germany in 1918)

Enfauser

Martini-Henry

Machine Guns

Maschinengewehr 08

Portuguese RepublicHandguns

Savage Pistol

Parabellum Pistol

Rifles

Mauser-Vergueiro

Lee-Enfield (Portuguese forces in the Western Front)

Kropatschek

Machine Guns

Vickers Machine Gun

Lewis Gun

Maxim-Vickers Gun

Kingdom of RomaniaRifles

Mosin-Nagant

Steyr-Mannlicher M1893

Steyr-Mannlicher M1895

Russian EmpireHandguns

Nagant M1895

Mauser C96

Browning M1903

P08 Parabellum

Colt 1911

Rifles

Mosin-Nagant

Type 38 Rifle (Northern front)

Lebel 1886 (Caucasian front)

Fedorov Avtomat

Berdan Rifle

Machine Guns

M1910 Maxim Gun

Lewis gun

Madsen machine gun

Swords

Shashka

United States of AmericaHandguns

Colt M1911

M1917 revolver

Smith & Wesson Model 10

Colt New Service

Rifles

M1903 Springfield

M1917 Enfield

M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle

Machine Guns

M1917 Browning Machine Gun

Chauchat Light Machine Gun

Lewis Gun

Hotchkiss M1909 Benet-Mercie machine gun

Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun

Shotguns

Winchester M1897

Winchester M1912

Browning Auto-5

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The standard issue weapon to a British infantryman would have been a Lee-Enfield No.4 bolt-action rifle.

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