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The images on this page are not to scale.
Beginning on the right top:
The primary weapon of each Rifleman is the Enfield No. 4 Mk I rifle.
Officers, NCOs, drivers, weapons crewmembers, and radiomen may equip themselves with a sidearm. Approved sidearms include the Enfield .38 revolver: the 9mm Browning Hi-Power: the .45 Webley revolver: or the American M1911A1 .45 autopistol (not pictured).
Select Riflemen were issued a sniper variant of the Enfield No. 4 Mk I. This weapon is quite rare, however.
Crew-served weapons included Vickers and Lewis machine guns (not pictured) and the rather goofy-looking PIAT anti-tank weapon.
Many men were issued the 9mm Sten MkII or MkV submachine gun (MkII pictured).
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Other weapons included the Gammon grenade (left, top), which was simply a large chunk of plastic explosive or Gelignite, held in an adhesive cloth pouch, and with a detonator attached to the top. Also included was the M36 "Mills Bomb" hand grenade (left, middle).
Also issued were knives of various sorts, the most common of which was the famous Fairbairn/Sykes "commando" knife (not pictured).
The squad-level automatic weapon was the venerable and reliable Bren Gun (left, bottom), a magazine-fed automatic rifle chambered in the same cartridge as the Enfield rifle.