My never-ending quest for odd British WWII equipment information has led me to consider small arms ammunition. British and Commonwealth factories...
Object description: The turret of a Pickett-Hamilton Retractable Fort, fully raised and manned by a bren-gun team of the Coldstream Guards, taken...
Object description: A Bren gunner of the 5th Coldstream Guards covers a street in Arras, 1 September 1944. Catalogue number: BU 245 Part of: WAR...
Object description: A Scots Guards Bren gun team and rifleman in training on Salisbury Plain, 1939. Catalogue number: H 378 Part of: WAR OFFICE...
What was the basic side arm and ar army infantry carried at the battle of the bulge?
I stumbled onto this photo set earlier thought it is an amazing set of photo's of the production line at Inglis Canada during the war. mrclark's...
I came across this in the 14th Bn Sherwood Foresters War Diaries and thought it might be of interest, as it gives an insight into some of the...
British forces are to be equipped with a new standard issue pistol for the first time in more than 40 years. The MOD has signed a £9m contract to...
Tank crews were issued with the 38W hand pistol as a personal weapon, we knew after all that range practise that you could not hit a bucketat 10...
I've just come across a reference to a British EM4 rifle, a paper project circa 1944-46, on Wikepedia (yeah, I know but it also mentions the EM3...
Hello, I bought these extra bren pouches a will a go. On the yoke ar some unidentified markings. Is it possible that the yellow dod is anti gas...
As a boy soldier, our weapons instructior, told us where the lazy screw was situated,i remember where its situated,but dont remember whether it...
Anyone know if Sten Guns were carried in 21st Tank Brigade Churchills? Definitely they were not in Churchills of 25th Tank Brigade. Cheers, Gerry
I was over at Stirling Castle visiting the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders museum. While I was there I noticed something unusual. There was a...
hello all, I was looking for some history and backgroud on a specific signal flare pistol and figured a forum such as this would be a good place...
hiya i need some help my grandad past away a fews years ago i ended up with his bren gun mk1 deactivated but i lost the paper work u can see the...
Anyone know the operational procedures or a good book outlining flare usage? I can imagine that for most periods of WW2 it was an anachronistic...
I gather the .455 was replaced in huge quantities by the .38 at the start of the war. But, did any survive and used through the war? If so, by whom?
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