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Ref No:MR04201
Record No:MRP/6C/95
Date:Aug 1942
Date Period:1939_to_1945
Title:Machine Gun truck layout
Battalion:2nd Battalion
Place:Dunkirk Lines, Poona, India
Photographer:Robert King-Clark
Further Information:

A photograph showing the approved way to load one of the 2nd Battalion's 15cwt trucks to 'A scale'.  This is one of three photographs taken by Major Robert 'Rex' King-Clark showing loading patterns.  The others are MRP/5C/114 (MR04202) and MRP/5C/115 (MR04203).

Most of the boxes contain .303 ammunition for the Vickers Machine Gun.  Also stored are oil cans, condenser cans, tripods, sights, maintenance tools and a camoflage net.  All that is missing are the soldier's packs.

Six men are seated in the back, along with an unknown number in the front.

From Rex's personal photograph albums. Vol 8. No 2250.

 

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