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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.
A British Lewis gun team at the Battle of Hazebrouck. The second phase of the Spring Offensive (Operation Georgette, or the Battle of the Lys) had opened on 7 April and 5th Division took up positions from the Lys Canal to the Forest of Nieppe, where it came under immediate attack (the Battle of Hazebrouck). On 13 April 12th Gloucesters held off ...
Support troops included a mountain artillery battery, a machine gun squadron, Royal Engineers, a field ambulance, and an administrative train. The ICC became part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) and fought in several battles and engagements, in the Senussi Campaign , the Sinai and Palestine Campaign , and in the Arab Revolt .
Gatling gun (Pre World War 1) Field guns. Krupp 50mm Mountain Gun; Krupp 7.5 cm Model 1903; ... Lewis Gun; Grenades. M1915, M1916 and M1917 Stielhandgranate [broken ...
On 28 September 1918, during a counter-attack at the canal, following the capture of Marcoing, France, his platoon was stopped by machine-gun fire. Tandey crawled forward, located the gun position and with a Lewis gun team, silenced it. Reaching the canal crossing, he restored the plank bridge under heavy fire.
Moving fast, the two battalions reached the second objective ('Flers Trench') after about 1,000 yards (910 m). One machine gun team in the trench caused heavy casualties to A Company before they were rushed with the bayonet, otherwise the Germans surrendered to the Company Sergeant-Major who had succeeded to the command of A Company. The ...
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.
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 ...