Our other new archive uploads on the #VickersMG Patreon including Churchill, Crusader, Dingo and Carrier stowage diagrams, and papers for Manchester Regiment, King’s Own Lancasters and a tragic certificate of death for a Far East prisoner of war who died in an air crash on the way home!
This upload deserves its own post! A seemingly innocuous Army Book 136 - a notebook - but a platoon roll book, issue book, orders book and lectures for 8th (Saxmundham) Suffolk Home Guard in 1943!
Completely digitised and uploaded to the #VickersMG Patreon today.
What’s more festive that a #VickersMG mowing down a group of Germans? 8 Battalion Machine Gun Corps thought this was fine in 1918. Head to our Patreon to see the whole card.
Some niche #VickersMG knowledge has helped describe this Machine Gun Corps Christmas Card. Two machine guns on the front but neither are the Mark 1 gun!
More detail and a new card every day over on the VMGCRA Patreon.
Head to the VMGCRA Patreon for another free access Christmas Card from the First World War. This one features a sketch of the #VickersMG drawn by The CSM of 247 MG Company!
Emma Gees at Christmas - head to the VMGCRA Patreon for a daily free access Christmas card from the Machine Gun Corps and machine gunners during the #VickersMG service.
Born #otd 1922 - John Hinton who went on to serve as a Vickers machine gunner in the Cheshire Regiment and remembered how to strip a #VickersMG forty years later!
Rich’s influence in starting to collect and set up the VMGCRA.
#OTD 1915 The #machineguncorps was formed. Only in existence until 1922, it consolidated machine gunnery from across the army and developed organisation, training and doctrine that resonates still today.
#militaryhistory #firstworldwar #vickersmg
One of our highlights of the We Have Ways Fest was being able to borrow a truck from Track and Wheel, add some great reenactors from Spirit of Britain and top off with a little sound track and it shows how well made the #VickersMG radial anti-aircraft mount was!
Ready for episode 4 of Dispatches from the Dugout? Watch Matt, Rich and Tom chat about the Vickers and the context of the 1940s. On YouTube Friday 29 August at 8pm with extending episode (with firing content) premiering on Patreon at the same time. #dugout #vickersmg #mp40 #sturmgewehr #ww2
Episode 2 out Friday 15 August. Here’s a preview of the firing segment available on the Patreon extended episode. #vickersmg #thompson #browning #mp28 #dugout
Dispatches from the Dugout: Episode 2. Coming on Friday 15 August. #VickersMG #SmallArms
LAST ORDERS! Today to get something from our shop before September.
If you need a #VickersMG 'fix' during the summer then it's also the last day to take advantage of our free one-month access to Patreon by checking out the last newsletter.
Due to annual leave, we won’t be shipping any shop orders in August. Past posting will be collected on Friday so please get any orders in now or be prepared to wait until September to have them shipped. #vickersmg
The team are at the Royal Armouries Fort Nelson again today with a selection of #VickersMG. Come along and chat if you’re visiting!
These dual-language manuals are really fascinating! This is a Canadian example we're scanning and sharing at the moment. #VickersMG #NotJustVickersMG
Three years ago! Still mentioned at every event we go to. #VickersMG
16 Vickers Machine Guns - Shooting Montage from Centenary Shoot
youtu.be/tdGOb0Jnzrs
Compare the #VickersMG with its comparators and compatriots. #Bren
You will get to see this kind of demonstration from as close as this camera is. #VickersMG
Evolution of the #VickersMG tangent sight slide during the First World War.
#militaryhistory #firstworldwar
Great new content being prepared to upload to the #VickersMG Patreon this week. If you’re not a member, then you’re missing out on all these primary sources unavailable anywhere else online and otherwise buried deep in archives, if available at all!
#FirstWorldWar #SecondWorldWar
Navigating the #VickersMG
Hi folks, We know that there is so much on our Patreon channel that we have created a site map to help people understand what is there and to find some of the key elements. I've used loads of this in lessons. The photo collection is worth the £3 a month
Navigating the #VickersMG Patreon
Hi everyone, We know that there is so much on our Patreon channel that we have created a site map to help people understand what is there and to find some of the key elements. Hopefully it helps existing 'Emma Gees' and encourages more to join.
From a donation at the end of 2023, we have now scanned and catalogued this amazing scrapbook of Captain Frederick Howard’s service in the Artists’ Rifles (28th Bn London Regiment) and then as an instructor at the Machine Gun School.
#fwwhist #firstworldwar #artistsrifles #machineguncorps #vickersmg
Linking names with pictures!
From the VMGCRA Patreon and the MGC Database we share on the @UkNatArchives @UKNatArcSector
#MachineGunCorps #FWWHist #FirstWorldWar #VickersMG
Alfred’s world tour continued in Egypt. Here, he and his comrades were trained on the #VickersMG, as the unit was redesignated a machine gun battalion.
His first taste of active service came in January 1938, when the battalion began a tour of Palestine.
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You didn’t ask, but now you know! Well, one of our members did ask but we thought we’d share with everyone. #vickersmg
