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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 Lewis gun on a Foster mounting (of the later, S.E.5 model) fitted to an Avro 504K Night Fighter. The Foster mounting was a device fitted to some fighter aircraft of the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. It was designed to enable a machine gun (in practice, a Lewis Gun) to fire over, rather than through the
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
British Lewis gun team on the bank of the Lys canal during Battle of Hazebrouck, 15 April 1918 German prisoners being guarded by Australian troops, 23 April 1918. Michael had drawn British forces to defend Amiens, leaving the rail route through Hazebrouck and the approaches to the Channel ports of Calais, Boulogne and Dunkirk vulnerable.