Bren gun photos

Hi guys

Seeing as the bren is winning hands down against the BAR and a few photos have been posted I thought a thread to share pictures may be in order?

Personally I would like to see period photos of the Bren in action and BEF especially.

Any takers?

Smudge

 

My favourite!



Private H. E. Goddard, of the Perth Regiment, carrying a Bren gun as he advances through a forest north of Arnhem with the 5th Canadian Armored Division

 

These are interesting

 

I like this one.!!!

 

And some more

 

These are interesting

The middle one is an Osprey book. I think in the book it state's that it was a Favorite of the Maquis, I think off me top of my head that the bren gun girl is Canadian??

 

The French Milice on the Vichy side were armed with Bren Guns as an LMG as were many German SS Units - these weapons were in the main captured from the Allies or from container drops tothe Resistance forces in Europe.

The image of the Commando Bren Gunner was taken at Anzio.

 

Informative photos here. (mine seems to have some bits missing )

Stripping the Bren Gun

 

Just a pile of chits

‪Bob Monkhouse fixes a Bren Gun‬‏ - YouTube

They cut the punch line. For those who don't know he tells the Sargent he used to work in the factory that made Bren guns.

 

The Bren shown here is a Canadian Inglis Mk1 gun, it has to be a serial number of M5000 to M7500 ish from early 1941.

 

Here's one of my favorite Winter of '45 photographs.

After the Battle for Kapelsche Veer, Holland, 1 February 1945 (PA144706).
The Lincoln and Welland Regiment.

 

World War II: Bren light machine gun

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British and Commonwealth forces.
Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.) during the Border Campaign and up to 1964
Irish Defence Forces (Used by the Reserve Defence Forces (RDF), until replaced by the FN MAG in 2006).
Chinese National Revolutionary Army of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek of the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War
Brigade Mobil SOF of Indonesian Police still use Bren in services. After Independence War 1945-1950 TNI use Bren as machine gun squad.
Hellenic Air Force (HAF).
General Operations Force of the Royal Malaysian Police (before replaced by the 7.62 NATO HK 11).
Both sides of the Nepalese Civil War.
Democratic Army of Greece (DSE) during the Greek Civil War (1946-1949).
Indian Army
Sri Lanka Army
Canadian army during WWII
Poland during WWII.
Nepalese Army


Soldier manning a Bren at the mouth of the Lingi River Malaya 1964.


Canadian members of the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) on the border between Egypt and Israel six years after the Suez Crisis.


Members of the 3RAR at Hill 614 in Korea armed with .303 Bren light machine gun, rear, and .303 rifle. Picture: Ian Robertson, February 1951.

 

Like the L4 pics form Malaya

 

L4A4 in NBC conditions



L4A4 in Norway

 

Nazi Eagle on my Captured MG137e 1941 Inglis Bren

 

Fred Craig and Bren, 2nd batt Liverpool Scottish in the Woodbridge/Aldham area of Suffolk, April/May 1940.

 

Here's one of my favorite Winter of '45 photographs.

After the Battle for Kapelsche Veer, Holland, 1 February 1945 (PA144706).
The Lincoln and Welland Regiment.

Love the Indian mocassins on the guy on the right. Could those possibly be army issue?

 

I like these ones. All taken from the IWM (hence their size)