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A French civilian pours a British Bren gunner a glass of cider during the battle for Lisieux, France - Aug 1944
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A French civilian pours a British Bren gunner a glass of cider during the battle for Lisieux, France - Aug 1944
Veronica Foster, known in World War II Canada as "Ronnie, the Bren Gun Girl" for her widely publicized armament work at the Inglis factory in Toronto
The second two parts of Great Men - Great Guns from Battle Picture Weekly No. 83 & 84 (cover dated 2 October and 9 October 1976). Treasury of British Comics.
Bren Light Machine Gun
Caliber: .303
Rate of fire: 500–520 rounds/min
Maximum firing range: 1,850 yd (1,690 m)
Effective firing range: 600 yd (550 m)
Siege of Jadotville & The Sniper Bren - Is The Bren More Accurate than a Sniper Rifle?
If you're familiar with the film Siege of Jadotville you will remember a scene in which the Irish company’s sniper takes on a long range shot... with a Bren.
The sniper exchanges his scoped Rifle No.4(T) for a Bren and single loads a round with the magazine removed. We teamed up with our friend Rich of Vickers MG Collection & Research Association to see how realistic this exciting and interesting scene is!
This scene raises a number of questions:
Why does the sniper do this?
Is the Bren more accurate than a Rifle No.4(T)?
Can you easily single-load a Bren?
We try to address these inn the video and in the article linked below!
Be sure to check out our accompanying article for this video which has more data, information and photos from the range here
Hope you find it interesting!
Des Sikhs de la 8e Armée britannique, Nayak Nazar Singh et Sepoy Sardara Singh, aux commandes d'un fusil-mitrailleur Bren sur la ligne de front près de Villa Grande – Campagne d’Italie – Italie – 15 janvier 1944
Photographe : Lieutenant G. Loughlin - No. 2 Army Film and Photo Section, Army Film and Photographic Unit
©Imperial War Museums - NA 11188
“Yugoslavs Join Second Battalion,” Sault Star. April 2, 1942. Page 5. ---- Three Slavs Among Eight Signing Tuesday in Local Regiment ---- There were eight new recruits for the Second Battalion, Tuesday night, and three of these were Yugoslavs, in the persons of Mike Mijatovitch, Matt Yakasovitch, and John Parlow. Mijatovitch saw service in the Yugoslav army in 1925 and 1926. These Slavs will be kept as a nucleus for a Slav platoon which, it is hoped, may be formed by recruits from the Sault and district.
The other recruits were Donald Moore ,Frank Lefave, William Murray and Dennis O’Sullivan.
Headquarters and B Companies held a route march on Tuesday night travelling north on Queen to Gore to Cathcart to John and up to Wellington and returned to the armoury, where they were given a demonstration with the Bren gun. Last night there was a parade of A company.
According to the Minister of National Defence ,many more recruits are needed for this battalion, and if there is not more voluntary effort in the very near future, more forceful measures may be adopted.