Please help identify these large ammo clips

**Jan** · 09-09-2020, 09:45 AM

Our team cecently discovered these large brass ammo clips with the markings M.S. I 1939 in a position used by Finnish forces during a battle in 1941. Just wondering what gun they might belong to. All help welcome!

Best,

Jan

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 09-09-2020 09:45 AM

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**Jan** · 09-09-2020, 01:50 PM

Identification complete. Rifle, Anti-Tank, .55in, Boys.

M.S. stands for "Myers & Sons" and the I means a Mark 1 rifle. This gun hindered Soviet reinforcements (in landing crafts) to reach the beach where retreating Soviet soldiers where pinned to the ground by Finnish forces.

Best, Jan

**CSW** · 09-09-2020, 02:06 PM

These 5-round clips are for the British .55 (13,9mm) Boys Anti-tank rifle. The Finns received a hundred of these guns in early 1940 and apparently some more from Germany before the Continuation War. Nice finds once again!