https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/bitstream/1826/.../1/Clarke%20D%20M%20PhD.pdf Arming the British Home Guard, 1940-1944
Fascinating read so far. Interesting that it was written by a student who had worked as an armourer in film and TV, and the supervisor was Professor R. Holmes - surely Richard 'War Walks' Holmes?
Agree! To wit: Unthinkingly adopting British musketry practice with an American M1917 bolt-action rifle could have dire consequences. The M1917 lacked the magazine cut-off of the British SMLE, and some negligent discharges resulted from veterans closing the bolt and squeezing the trigger to ease the mainspring, forgetting that in the absence of a cut-off, they had just chambered a live round.