Plate 16 of 87 · Class II, Machine guns

Vickers machine gun

The standard heavy machine gun of the British army, a water-cooled, belt-fed weapon that could fire for hours. At High Wood on 24 August 1916 ten Vickers guns of one company fired about a million rounds in 12 hours.

Mentioned in

• Chapter X The Machinery of War §1 Rifles and Machine Guns

Sources

Wikidata Q754800