List of weapons in Malayan Emergency explained

Infantry weapons

Commonwealth

Sidearms

• Webley Revolver
• Enfield No. 2
• Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless

used by high-rank officer such as General Sir Gerald Templer^[1]

• Browning Hi-Power

Rifles

• Short magazine Lee Enfield
• Lee–Enfield MkIII
• Lee–Enfield No. 4
• Jungle carbine
• De Lisle carbine
• Type 30 rifle
• M1 carbine
• M2 carbine
• M1903 Springfield^[2]
• L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle

Shotgun

• Browning Auto-5
• Remington Model 11

Submachine gun

• Thompson submachine gun
• Sten
• Sterling submachine gun
• M50 Reising
• Owen gun
• Madsen M-50
• M3 submachine gun

Machine gun

• Bren light machine gun
• Lewis gun
• Vickers machine gun

Grenade

• Mills bombs

Anti-tank weapons

• Boys anti-tank rifle
• PIAT

Communist guerrillas

Sidearms

• Webley revolver
• Enfield No. 2
• Browning Hi-Power
• M1911 pistol: used by Muhammad Indera during Bukit Kepong incident
• Mauser C96: supplied by Soviet Union
• Luger pistol
• Walther P38
• TT pistol: supplied by Soviet Union^[2]

Rifles

• Lee–Metford
• Lee–Enfield MkIII
• Lee–Enfield No. 4
• Jungle carbine
• M1 and M1A1 carbine
• Type 38 rifle
• Type 99 rifle
• Type 44 carbine
• Gewehr 1888 : supplied by Soviet Union
• Gewehr 98

supplied by Soviet Union

• Mosin–Nagant

supplied by Soviet Union

• M95 Mannlicher carbines

Shotgun

• Browning Auto-5
• Remington Model 11
• Harrington & Richardson Topper Shotgun

Submachine gun

• Thompson submachine gun
• Sten MK2 and MK 5
• Sterling submachine gun
• M50 Reising
• PPSh-41
• Type 100 submachine gun
• Madsen M-50

Captured from The Commonwealth of Nations troops

Machine gun

• Bren gun
• Type 11 light machine gun
• Type 92 heavy machine gun
• Type 96 light machine gun
• Type 99 light machine gun

Grenade launcher

• Type 10 grenade discharger
• Type 89 grenade discharger

Hand grenade

• Mills bomb

Notes and References

1. Web site: Malayan Emergency National Army Museum. www.nam.ac.uk. 2020-05-13.
2. Web site: Weapons of the Malay CTs 1948-1960. 17thdivision.tripod.com. 2020-05-14.