Thompson SMG

[Ed Storey]

While the Small Arms Training wartime series of manuals are good primary reference sources on how to hold, load, aim, fire and clean the small arms being employed by British forces, they really do not delve too deeply into the minutia of the weapons. I have a pretty good collection of SATs and have checked through the later editions for the Thompson and Machine Carbine manuals and did not see any reference to 30-round magazines.

Another source that would record a change in Thompson magazines would be the RCEME publications or even the Quartermaster entries in the wartime Divisional and Corps files.

I am still looking to see if I can locate a wartime photograph of a Canadian using a 30-round Thompson magazine.