Bren at War

[Luis Bren]

The truck is interesting that's been converted to run on rails. Any ideas on the make anyone, please?

Seems to be an early version of MAD MAX Rail Truck...

A soldier of the King’s Own Royal Regiment on train escort in a truck adapted to run on rails. Other patrols used enclosed wagons. Train escort was,‘….a soul searing job which entailed sitting for hours in oven-hot iron trucks, lumbering slowly through deep defiles, bored, sweating and dirty.’ Lion and Rose Regimental Magazine, 1939. By kind permission of the King’s Own Royal Regiment Museum, Lancaster. (You could probably shorten this to basic 'A British soldier on train escort duty during the 1936-39 Arab Uprising in Palestine. Copyright the King’s Own Royal Regiment Museum, Lancaster.'

Britain In Palestine, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, University of London

[Flying10uk]

1936-39 Arab Uprising in Palestine.

I haven't heard of this uprising, by the Arabs, in Palestine just before WW2. The only uprising in Palestine, while under British derestriction, that ever seems to get mentioned here is the one that happened just after WW2 and led to the creation of modern-day Israel.

[Luis Bren]

THE ALLIED LANDINGS AT ANZIO: 22 JANUARY-23 MAY 1944 | Imperial War Museums

[Brit plumber]

And it has a drum mag adapter on it.

[Luis Bren]

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945. | Imperial War Museums



From their hillside post, Leading Aircraftmen A Nickson and F Yewbrey of the RAF Regiment point out Japanese positions in the Imphal Valley to their Commanding Officer, Squadron Leader T F Ryalls, and a unit commander, Flying Officer J D Crowhill. At the height of the Siege of Imphal, four RAF Regiment squadrons, and numerous light anti-aircraft flights, were employed in defending the airfields in the valley.

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A Bren gun team of an RAF Regiment Anti-Aircraft Flight, await the order to move forward while securing a desert landing ground in Egypt. These units seized the Fuka and Daba landing grounds during the enemy's withdrawal following the Battle of El Alamein, capturing 300 some prisoners and clearing the area ready for the arrival of the flying squadrons.

ROYAL AIR FORCE: OPERATIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, 1939-1943. | Imperial War Museums

[Peter Laidler]

My dad told me that RAF = Rare As Fairies

[Brit plumber]

Even rarer now Peter!!

[Luis Bren]

Private Watkins of the 9th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, aims his Bren gun from a dugout in the garden of a house in Gangelt, on the Dutch/German border, 17 December 1944.



THE CAMPAIGN IN NORTH WEST EUROPE 1944-45 | Imperial War Museums

[Peter Laidler]

I cant help wondering what would have happened if he'd started firing his Bren, with those iron or steel railings about 10" from the muzzle. He'd have got an awful lot of ricochets and splinters back in his face.

[Bruce_in_Oz]

Photo 3 might be a vehicle mechanic "on loan".