Personal Number: 162073 Rank: Major Name: Hugh Kenneth MERRIAM, MiD Unit: Suffolk Regiment London Gazette : 6 January 1941...
From Imperial War Museum collection NA 7973 - 21/10/1943 NA 8727 - 13/11/1943 NA 9465 - 06/12/1943 NA 9524 - 05/12/1943 NA 9633 - 07/12/1943 NA...
From Imperial War Museum collections.
For those who want more information on the Bren light machine gun, we've started to collate information we have in the archive here on a new...
A closer look at one of the other guns in our collection - a Drill Purpose L54A1 Bren light machine gun. It's a Inglis (Canadian) 1943 .303-inch...
Hi , I have a mk1 dated 1940 with a what looks like a D with an E within it , if that makes sense! What are all the different symbols and...
Does anyone know how to find out about Luftwaffe losses on specific days? I know there's logs for RAF to find out what may have crashed, but I'm...
I am researching my grandfather's service during WW2 (and this website is invaluable). He fought from Normandy to Germany as a Bren Gunner with...
A question for the gun experts. Does anyone know anything about the sights shown on this BREN LMG? [IMG] Join the Modern Army. © IWM (Art.IWM PST...
Private Robert Love, wearing his preferred style of steel helmet, manning his Bren-gun sited at the corner of Bismarck Straase, Bremen.In the...
Too old for re-enacting etc, so, with regret, I have decided to sell my Bren gun , but I'm not very sure how best to go about it., so any advice...
Hi, I'm new to this forum and was wondering having just received a bren gun ( deactivated of course) if anyone can help trace it's history. It was...
Object description: The turret of a Pickett-Hamilton Retractable Fort, fully raised and manned by a bren-gun team of the Coldstream Guards, taken...
Object description: A Bren gunner of the 5th Coldstream Guards covers a street in Arras, 1 September 1944. Catalogue number: BU 245 Part of: WAR...
Object description: A Scots Guards Bren gun team and rifleman in training on Salisbury Plain, 1939. Catalogue number: H 378 Part of: WAR OFFICE...
Object description: Soldiers of 1st Welsh Guards in action near Cagny during Operation 'Goodwood', 19 July 1944. Catalogue number: B 7759 Part...
I stumbled onto this photo set earlier thought it is an amazing set of photo's of the production line at Inglis Canada during the war. mrclark's...
I came across this in the 14th Bn Sherwood Foresters War Diaries and thought it might be of interest, as it gives an insight into some of the...
Hello, I bought these extra bren pouches a will a go. On the yoke ar some unidentified markings. Is it possible that the yellow dod is anti gas...
As a boy soldier, our weapons instructior, told us where the lazy screw was situated,i remember where its situated,but dont remember whether it...
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