These downloads are provided free-of-charge for the benefit of anyone that wants to know more about the use of the Vickers Machine Gun and read what the Machine Gunners would have known. Many are rare items not readily available so, if you find them useful, please support the development of this resource. The archive now includes a wider range of associated documents so indirectly related to machine gunner. We hope you find it interesting.
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All of the manuals are sorted in date order, with some exceptions where it is appropriate to group similar manuals, such as the Small Arms Training series.
1908-1919:

Field Service Regulations, Part I, Operations
1909 (Reprinted with Amendments, 1914), United Kingdom
This issue of the Field Service Regulations sets out the doctrine and concepts for the British Army as it started the Great War. It includes details on the fighting troops and their characteristics, intercommunication and orders, movements by land and sea, quarters, protection, information, the battle, siege operations, night operations, warfare against an uncivilised enemy, convoys and ammunition supply.
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Field Service Regulations, Part II, Organization and Administration
1909 (Reprinted, with Amendments to October, 1914), United Kingdom
This sets out the Field Service Regulations immediately after the outbreak of the Great War. It details the administrative and organisational controls for the British Expeditionary Force and other units around the World, including their logistics and quartermaster requirements, ordnance and unit-level paperwork.
Coming soon.
1920-1938:

Field Service Regulations, Volume II, Operations
1920 (Provisional), United Kingdom
This provisional copy of the Field Service Regulations is the first formaliation of the doctrine of the British Army at the start of inter-war peacetime. It includes the principles of war, military policy and plans, fighting troops and their characteristics, movements by land and sea, quarters, operation orders and reports in the field, information, protection, battle, the attack, the defence, position warfare, combined naval and military operations, warfare against an uncivilised enemy and ammunition supply.
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Field Service Regulations, Volume II, Operations
1924, United Kingdom
This volume of the Field Service Regulations is the planned British Army doctrine and tactics for operations. It is their policy document for war. It includes chapters on armed forces, their command and the principles of war, fighting troops and their characteristics and armament, strategical preliminaries to joining battle, battle, information, protection, the attack, the defence, night operations, warfare in undeveloped and semi-civilised countries, movements by sea, land and air, orders, instructions, reports and messages, intercommunication and a range of appendices.
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Field Service Regulations, Volume II, Operations
1929, United Kingdom
This volume of the Field Service Regulations is the planned British Army doctrine and tactics for operations. It is their policy document for war. It includes chapters on armed forces, their command and the principles of war, fighting troops and their characteristics and armament, strategical preliminaries to joining battle, battle, information, protection, the attack, the defence, night operations, warfare in undeveloped and semi-civilised countries, movements by sea, land and air, orders, instructions, reports and messages, intercommunication and a range of appendices.
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Field Service Regulations, Volume I, Organization and Administration
1930, United Kingdom
This volume of the Field Service Regulations is for organisation and administration of the British Army, rather than the operations in warfare. It includes organisation of the forces in the field, command, the staff, the general staff branch, the adjutant-general’s branch, the quarter-master-general’s branch, the branch of the master-general of the ordnance, miscellaneous appointments to headquarters, distribution of the fighting troops, system of providing and maintaining personnel in the field, system of providing and maintaining material in the field, organisation of the services, organisation, distribution and command of the air force contingent with a field army, supply to the troops and replenishment, evacuation, quarters, ammunition supply, office work in the field, regulations for the utilization of the local resources of a country, civilians with an army, and finance and accounts.
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Field Service Regulations, Volume II, Operations – General
1935, United Kingdom
The British Army‘s full manual on how to manage and run general operations. It includes details on the fighting troops and their characteristics, command and control, moving troops, information and reconnaissance, protection on operations, doctrine in attack and defence, during night operations, ‘position warfare’ and other special types of conflict such as the desert and mountain warfare.
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Field Service Regulations, Volume III, Operations – Higher Formations
1935, United Kingdom
The British Army was planning for large-scale conventional warfare at this point in the 1930s and Volume II did not cover the movement and management of higher formations, such as Divisions, Corps and Armies. This Volume therefore covers how to manage these organisations.
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1939-1975:

Field Service Regulations, Volume I, Organization and Administration
1930 (Reprinted with Amendments (Nos. 1-11), 1939) with pasted Amendment No. 12, 1941, United Kingdom
This volume of the Field Service Regulations is for organisation and administration of the British Army, rather than the operations in warfare. It includes organisation of the forces in the field, command, the staff, the general staff branch, the adjutant-general’s branch, the quarter-master-general’s branch, the branch of the master-general of the ordnance, miscellaneous appointments to headquarters, distribution of the fighting troops, system of providing and maintaining personnel in the field, system of providing and maintaining material in the field, organisation of the services, organisation, distribution and command of the air force contingent with a field army, supply to the troops and replenishment, evacuation, quarters, ammunition supply, office work in the field, regulations for the utilization of the local resources of a country, civilians with an army, and finance and accounts.
High-resolution available on archive.org thanks to support through Patreon
These downloads are provided free-of-charge for the benefit of anyone that wants to know more about the use of the Vickers Machine Gun and read what the Machine Gunners would have known. Many are rare items not readily available so, if you find them useful, please support the development of this resource. The archive now includes a wider range of associated documents so indirectly related to machine gunner. We hope you find it interesting.
By supporting the Association through Patreon, you are supporting the website fees that will enable us to have high-resolution versions online. All donations are truly appreciated.
If you’d prefer to only give on a one-off basis, then go to PayPal or BuyMeACoffee and make a donation there.
All of the manuals are sorted in date order, with some exceptions where it is appropriate to group similar manuals, such as the Small Arms Training series.