Here’s our archive in action! Great to see it and we’d love to see more of it. Please go to our Patreon to get access and support what we do (another thousand archive wallets ordered yesterday and sixty more storage boxes - over £500 spent on ‘logistics’ of managing this just this week).
Sight alignment with the Thompson: the cocking handle of the M1928 made a good quick battle sight and avoided the complexity of the adjustable aperture sight. This is from the 1942 Gale and Polden ‘Mechanism Made Easy’ pamphlet that we uploaded to our Patreon library recently. #tommygun
Lt Wyllie was killed in April 1917 and is buried in Karasouli Military Cemetery in Greece.
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What was Army Form No 1? There have been thousands of forms generated in the British Army and we're currently uploading examples of hundreds of them to our online archive. Turns out that Form No 1 was just a confirmation of a letter receipt! This one is an interesting one too.
We uploaded a batch of manuals to Patreon last night including a Canadian Army pamphlet on the Colt and S&W revolvers. This was a bespoke Pam to them rather than just a reprint of a British example. Great drawings. www.patreon.com/posts/154254...
I know we found something before (about 30 Corps vs XXX Corps) and I’ve found the bit about First, Second Army etc but it’ll be a deeper dive into the Field Service Pocket Books probably.
Infantry Training, Volume I, Infantry Platoon Weapons, Pamphlet No. 11, Trained Soldiers (All Arms), Exercises in Handling of Weapons, 1955.
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Friday Fonds - 13 February 2026
Our latest batch of archive uploads is now on Patreon. Here are some snippets of the files shared today, including a series of propaganda leaflets that will continue for several weeks.
Infantry Training, Volume I, Infantry Platoon Weapons, Pamphlet No. 9, Part II, 3.5-inch Rocket Launcher, 1953, amendments written in
Infantry Training, Volume I, Infantry Platoon Weapons, Pamphlet No. 2, Fieldcraft (All Arms), 1954, with Amendments No 1 and No 2 pasted in.
Interesting books for the Home Guard. We wonder how many survived filled in, let alone blanks like these. We have two examples from 7th North Riding of Yorkshire battalion that record a section’s attendance for 1943 to 1944 and all will be on our archive soon.
Yes, pretty much every gun in action by the end of the war. You’ll spot them in more pics now you’ve spotted one!
It is the blast deflector and flash eliminator introduced about 1940. Some practical demonstration here. youtu.be/SjL5GkAg2fg?...
Another dozen or so items added to the online archive today, including #MachineGunCorps postcards and images. www.patreon.com/posts/150040...
Lieutenant A Slater signed a lot of permits!! These are from our archive and have been scanned today and will be shared on our archive soon. The numbers range from 9688 to 67662 and ALL are signed by the same permit officer. Theres even a CSM’s wife with her own permit and photo!
Infantry Training, Volume I, Infantry Platoon Weapons, Pamphlet No. 9, Part I, The Anti-Tank Grenade, No. 94 (Energa), 1953
Our latest Extra! Dispatches from the Dugout video discusses the Bren and how easy it was to strip and clean. Also close ups of our skeletonised Bren. #militaryhistory #notjustvickersmg
BR 641. Handbook and Drill for 0.50 Inch Browning (Colt) Gun on Single Colt Mark VIII and Twin Colt Mark IX Mountings.
