The Machine Gunners’ Handbook (11th Edition)

Including the Vickers and Lewis Automatic Machine Guns

Lieut J Bostock, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (Machine Gun Corps)

Introductory; Essentials for Machine Gun Instructors; General Principles of Training; Organisation of Machine Guns; General Description (Vickers); Action of Mechanism; Stripping (Vickers); Examination; Stoppages; Care and Cleaning; Points Before, During, and After Firing; Allocation of Duties; Belt Filling; Elementary Drill; Tests of Elementary Training; General Machine Gun Courses; Advanced Drill; Trench Drill; Limber Drill; Characteristics; Fire Direction; Combined Sights; Direct Overhead Fire; Indirect Fire; Use of Spirit Level; Graticules; Map and Compass; Barrage and Long Range Searching Fire; Testing Clinometers; Night Firing; Searching Reverse Slopes; Barrage Fire; Notes on Lewis Gun; General Description (Lewis); Mechanism (Lewis); Stripping (Lewis); Stoppages (Lewis).

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