Bren Collection

British machine gun carriers passing through French village
British Bren Machine-Gun Carriers passing through a French village on the way to a rendezvous in the early weeks of World War Two. Date: 1939

Bren Gunner, 7th Gurkha Rifles, Burma, 1944 (c)
Photograph: A well-concealed Bren Gunner of the 7th Gurkha Rifles amongst the thick foliage of the Burmese jungle, 1944 (c)

Waiting for the rabbit to bolt
Photograph: Waiting for the rabbit to bolt From an album of 101 photographs, with newspaper cuttings, 1st Bn Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge?s Own), Cyprus, 1955-1958. Date: 1957

Bren. 303 in Mk I light machine gun, 1942; original round dial sight. One of the finest light machine guns ever produced, the Bren was the centre of a platoons firepower in all theatres of operation

Bren Gun Carrier Wartime Vehicles Watercolour
Bren, Gun, Carrier, Wartime, Vehicles, Watercolour, painting, Alan, Anderson, 12021626

ILN cover - Bren-carriers being entrained
Open rail trucks being loaded with Bren-gun carriers by their crews in June 1940, when all munitions production in Britain was ramped up in the face of a threat of German invasion. Date: 1940

Captain Gauvin Memorial Anguerny Normandy
Memorials to those who survived are not generally welcomed because of the numbers. However, Gauvin led the Bren carriers of the Chaudieres into the village and after the war became a diplomat

British troops halted by the wayside with their Bren carrier, while the ceaseless stream of Belgian refugees file past, fleeing the German invaders on the Western Front during World War II Date

WW2 poster, Gloster Aircraft National Savings Group. Our aim is one fighter per month, for the next three months. Join the group, win certificates, and help win the war. Save now for your future

Poster, Cyprus crisis 1957, reward for arrest of Grivas
Poster, Cyprus crisis 1957, reward for the arrest of George Theodorou Grivas, and for arms handed in. Date: 1957

Bill Webb. Cpl Brown. Tpr Blumenson
Photograph: Bill Webb. Cpl Brown. Tpr Blumenson. Shows three men sitting in the back of a truck, one of the men is holding a mounted Bren gun. Truck has a rhino logo on the back left hand side

Weapon training while on safari
Photograph of weapon training while on safari. One of 41 photographs taken by Lt Roger Perkins, 4th (Uganda) Bn King?s African Rifles, 1956-1957

Bren practice
Photograph: Bren practice. Shows two men lying on their stomachs, one is holding a Bren gun and the other is adjusting the gun

Korean War - Machine gun carrier with crew and dog
Photograph of machine gun carrier with crew and dog. From album of 126 photographs with newspaper cuttings, 1st Bn Middlesex Regiment, Korea (1950-1953), 1950-1951. Date: 1951

Rhine crossing: two Commandos looking out for snipers
Photograph showing the Rhine crossing: two Commandos looking out for snipers among the ruins of Osnabuck, 4 Apr 1945. Armed with a Bren Gun and Thompson sub-machine gun

Indian soldiers using a Bren gun
Photograph of Indian soldiers using a Bren gun. A gas-operated weapon, the Bren used the same. 303 ammunition as the standard British rifle, the Lee-Enfield

Commandos weapon training with Bren guns
Photograph showing commandos weapon training with Bren guns, Commando Basic Training Centre, Achnacarry, Inverness-shire, 1941-1943.Associated with World War Two (1939-1945). Date: 1943

How a tank is controlled by G. H. Davis
How a tank is controlled: details of the Carden-Vickers Bren Gun carrier. A sectional drawing showing crew positions, layout and equipment. Date: 1941

WW2 - British tanks pass through a village
WW2 - A convoy of British Bren gun carriers pass through a village (somewhere in France) Date: circa 1910s

British Troops in Brunei
Ammunition boxes make an improvised, but effective pillbox for British troops in Brunei. The light automatic weapon held by the soldier on the left is a bren gun modified to take Nato ammunition

British troops in France WWII
As some of the farmers horses have been commandeered by the French Army, these farmers have been handicapped in their ploughing

Weapons on evacuation ship WWII
Bren guns and others piled on the decks of the Royal Sovereign during the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Cherbourg en route for Southampton

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