British Western Front
(150) X.34094 - Machine gun firing at a Boche plane
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > British Western Front > (150) X.34094 - Machine gun firing at a Boche plane |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549554 |
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| Description | Vickers machine-gun crew, Western Front, during World War I. A machine-gun crew using a Vickers machine-gun to fire at an aircraft. The Number 1 of the crew is clearly looking through the sights on the back of the gun barrel as he fires. The Number 2 is feeding in the ammunition belt. The other two would have been needed to help carry the gun and its ammunition. The Vickers was a heavy machine-gun, weighing 100lb (45kg) so it was not easy to move quickly. As a result, the lighter and simpler Lewis gun was developed, although both continued to be used. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT. A machine gun firing at a Boche plane.'] |
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| Description | Photographs, all taken on the British Western Front, that are not attributed to a particular photographer. |
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| Description | Black-and-white photographs mainly of the Western Front during the First World War. Official British war photographers took many of them for propaganda purposes. Unless otherwise stated, titles are the photographs' original captions. From the papers of Field Marshal (Earl) Haig (1861-1928). The Haig Papers also contain Douglas Haig’s diaries. |
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| Shelfmark | Acc.3155 |
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