UNITS THAT USED THE VICKERS

The Royal Marines and Army Commandos

The Great War

Inter-war Period

Second World War

Combined Operations

The units of the Royal Marines and the Army Commandos used the Vickers MG .303-inch Mk. I and the Vickers .303-inch GO No. 2 Mk. I (Modified) in the Heavy Weapons Troop of the Commando. The MMGs were subsituted for the GO guns during assault operations.

The Royal Marines

1st Commando Brigade, Rhine Crossing - 1945

The Army Commandos

No. 4 Commando

'K' Troop, No. 4 Commando, Ouisterham - 1944

Post-Second World War

Sources

  • Laws, 1944a
  • Norris, 1945a
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