Suicide Squad – The Machine Gun Corps – 1916
We were put on parade one Saturday morning in early 1916, which was unusual. The next thing I know the Sergeant’s running up and down the line with the Red Cap picking out people’s names. Afterwards I...
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Grantham was a goods yard. Belton Park and Harrowby nearby were the camps for transport and twelve machine gunner companies. There were mules and officers’ horses and the limbers; a limber was a four...
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The Vicker’s Gun was marvellous if you were mechanically minded. It was based on an original design by the American Harim Maxim who supplied guns to all the warring sides. He became a naturalised...
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