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The Lewis gun (or Lewis automatic machine gun or Lewis automatic rifle) is a First World War–era light machine gun. Designed privately in the United States though not adopted there, the design was finalised and mass-produced in the United Kingdom, [ 4 ] and widely used by troops of the British Empire during the war.
1916 photograph of a Lewis Gun. Caption: "The Lewis Gun Assembled - The gun weighs but 26½ pounds, light enough for one man to carry, so that in case of a hasty retreat it need not be abandoned to the enemy, as many heavier types of machine guns must be" Date: 1916: Source: Google Books - (1916). ""Tanks" and the "Hose of Death"". The World's ...
Machine guns. Bergmann MG15nA; DWM MG 08 and MG 08/15; Hotchkiss M1909; Hotchkiss M1900; Maxim machine gun; Nordenfelt multiple barrel gun; Schwarzlose M1907/12; Vickers machine gun; Lewis Gun; Grenades. M1915, M1916 and M1917 Stielhandgranate [broken anchor] Flamethrowers. Kleinflammenwerfer M1911; Wechselapparat; Infantry mortar ...
Lewis gun; M. M1903 Springfield; M1905 bayonet; M1911 pistol; M1917 bayonet; M1917 Browning machine gun; M1917 Enfield; M1917 Revolver; M1918 Browning automatic rifle ...
While the rest of 2nd Division attacked at the Battle of Guillemont on 30–31 July, 22nd RF was back in Delville Wood, where Lt-Col Barker reorganised the defences to emphasise firepower (12 Lewis Guns of the battalion and 8 Vickers guns of 99th Brigade Machine Gun Company). During the battalion's four-day tour of duty the wood was constantly ...
Lewis Gun team of 31st Division near Merris, 12 April 1918. 31st Division was then sent north to the quiet sector behind First Army where it went into reserve. It received large numbers of reinforcements, but these were mainly CategoryA4: under the age of 19 who would not previously have been eligible for active service.
The rifle and hand-grenade sections were to advance in front of the Lewis-gun and rifle-grenade sections, in two waves or in artillery formation, which covered an area 100 yd (91 m) wide and 50 yd (46 m) deep, with the four sections in a diamond pattern, the rifle section ahead, rifle grenade and bombing sections to the sides and the Lewis gun ...
A group of about 50 Germans of the 6th Company of II/229 RIR, advancing earlier than planned, had overrun the Lewis gun team covering the level crossing, and began advancing southwards behind the embankment to the rear of the right forward company of the battalion. Seeing their movement, McDougall and others opened fire on them.