Bren at War

[CINDERS]

British Commando School.

I see a No.4 sniper "T" rifle being held by the Commando on the right front row, not defined what Mark of scope apart from it being a No 32

[CINDERS]

the Dieppe raid

A good read is Green Beach By James Leasor another little known fact about Dieppe as I am quite sure the RAAF radar specialist who went in on the raid on foot did not know what his Army companion had installed for him should their capture be imminent..........

[CINDERS]

Found these ones plus a few hundred more WWII pics of differing powers and armaments on a long forgotten memory stick. Also 2 sets of those famous Binos Peter

[LithgowMKIII]

I went on a PT instructors course at Nee Soon/Tanglin camp in Singapore as a bit of what I thought would be a jolly. It was mornings only but xxxxxxx hard physical work! One of the instructors there was a Gurkha who'd got the VC in Borneo. We just knew him as Cpl. Bimbo.

The photo illustrates what I say about sights............ 800 yards was 750 yards to far! If it wasn't actual visibility, it was just constantly dark green. We had to take salt and pallaudrin tablets every day which so said, made you sweat twice as much as you would normally. Without those jungle/beanie hats the salty sweat used to run into your eyes and sting like buggery*
* 'sting like buggery' - a highly technical tropical medicine term used as a flowery descriptive term among the well read medicos amongst us!

Everything is AC'ed there now except outdoors of course.

Gurkhas still there with the police; Seconded Brit army CO.

[Luis Bren]

A Soldier from the 2-23rd Infantry Battalion beside his Bren light machinegun at the frontline in Tobruk,September 1941

[Robert303]

Thanks for all the pics! Great thread.

[Luis Bren]

A British Bren gun crew in a trench at Anzio, Italy, 13 March 1944

[henry r]

to me, THE iconic bren picture.



1943-01-02. PAPUA, GIROPA POINT. Australian MANNED M3 GENERAL STUART TANKS ATTACKING JAPANESE PILLBOXES IN THE FINAL ASSAULT ON BUNA. MEN OF D COMPANY, 2/12TH BATTALION, FIRE ON 25 JAPANESE (NOT SEEN), USING BREN MK 1 MACHINE GUNS AND SMLE NO 1 MKIII* RIFLES, WHO ARE FLEEING FROM A WRECKED PILLBOX 150 YARDS AWAY. THE PILLBOX WAS DESTROYED BY THE GENERAL STUART TANK SHOWN HERE. IN THE FOREGROUND ARE PRIVATE J. SEARLE AND CORPORAL G. G. FLETCHER. THIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS TAKEN DURING THE ACTUAL FIGHTING.

[Luis Bren]

The soldier at right , have a bren with tripod.... ???

[gsimmons]

It's a bipod, the legs are folded out, not in like the bloke on the left.