British machine guns ww1
[DOC File]The Royal Armouries First World War Archives
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Instructions for Armourers in the care, repair, browning & c., of small-arms, machine guns, “parapet” carriages, and for the care of bicycles (reprinted with amendments, 1916). London: HMSO. Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
[DOC File]Weebly
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The main weapon used by British soldiers in the trenches was the bolt-action rifle. 15 rounds could be fired in a minute and a person 1,400 metres away could be killed. Machine guns. needed 4-6 men to work them and had to be on a flat surface. They had the fire-power of 100 guns. Large field guns …
[DOC File]Source A by General Haig before the battle of the Somme in ...
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He created the British legion (1921) and was its first President as well as head of the United Services Fund. The former Haig home at Bemersyde was bought for him by a grateful nation and St Andrew University elected him Rector and then Chancellor. At his own request he …
[DOC File]Weapons and Tactics of World War I - Al Bennett
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20 Machine Gun (note- environmental damage) 4. Inflicted 92% of all WW1 casualties 21 Big Gun Big Guns. 1. Needed large numbers of guns for operations. Used “barrage fire” – a curtain of artillery shelling. 22 Big Gun Developed anti-aircraft guns in. response to increased use of planes
[DOC File]World War 1
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Machine Guns: The machine gun, which fires ammunition automatically, was much improved by the time of World War I. As a result, it saw wide use in combat. Because the gun could wipe out waves of attackers & make it difficult for forces to advance, it helped create a stalemate . Tank: The tank was an armored combat vehicle that moved on chain ...
[DOC File]1914-1919 Shell Shock Video Questions
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12. How did new artillery (ex. machine guns, tanks, and poison gas) affect the course of the war? 13. What is “shell shock”? 14. What happened at the Battle of the Somme? How many British Tommies were killed? How far did the allies advance? 15. What was going on in Russia at this time? 16. Who was Lenin? Who were the Bolsheviks? 17.
[DOC File]The First World War
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The attack was preceded by an eight-day artillery bombardment, in which 1537 British guns fired 1,723,873 rounds. The sound of the bombardment could be heard in England. The aim of the bombardment was two-fold: firstly to kill the German soldiers and reduce them to shell-shocked chaos, secondly to destroy the German barbed wire.
FIRST WORLD WAR – THE BRTISH ROLE Lecture Notes
Machine guns. Stupid Generals ‘over the top’ Inspiration for poets, Blackadder. ... WW1 a learning curve for British army. Gruelling campaign between 1914 and 18 required high morale of troops to keep high level of discipline. French and Russian armies mutinied. Ethos of British officer corps was one of paternalism – soldiers looked after ...
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George Coppard was a British soldier who fought during the entire First World War and was twice wounded. He fought at the Battle of the Somme as a machine gunner and wrote about his experiences in his book, With a Machine Gun to Cambrai. In this excerpt, Coppard recollects his …
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Crude machine guns had first been used in the American Civil War (1861 to 1865). However, tactics from this war to 1914 had not changed to fit in with this new weapon. Machine guns could shoot hundreds of rounds of ammunition a minute and the standard military tactic of . World War One
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