A Vickers machine gun team in gas masks, 1916 (c)
photograph, photograph
Accession Number
NAM.1995-03-86-3
Description
British Vickers machine gun crew wearing PH-type anti-gas helmets. Near Ovillers during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916. The gunner is wearing a padded waistcoat, enabling him to carry the machine gun barrel. From an album of 22 official photographs (and one newspaper cutting) showing scenes from the Western Front, 1916-1918 (c). Associated with World War One, Western Front (1914-1918).
Campaigns
World War One, Western Front (1914-1918)
People
Associated collection
