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Ref No:MR01318
Record No:MRP/6C/124
Date:Dec 1942
Date Period:1939_to_1945
Period:Second World War
Title:Machine Gun versus Tommy Gun
Battalion:2nd Battalion
Classification:2nd Battalion
Place:Royal Armoured Corps Depot, Poona, India
Photographer:Robert King-Clark
Further Information:

A soldier with a Tommy Gun (Thompson Sub Machine Gun) charges two members of the 2nd Battalion and their Vickers Machine Gun during training at the Royal Armoured Corps Indian Depot in Poona.

Major Robert 'Rex' King-Clark, the second in command of the 2nd Battalion, took part in this training.

From Rex's personal photograph albums. Vol 8. No 2300.

 

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