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This view of a Bren Gun Carrier of the 13/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) coming down a slope during an exercise near Arras on 16 October 1939 gives us a good view of the layout of the vehicle, with two of the crew in front compartment and the third man in the small rear compartment at the back left.
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Bren Gun Carrier – Britain’s Universal War Machine, Robert Jackson.
A look at one of the most numerous tracked vehicles in British service during the Second World War, originally designed to carry machine guns to the location where they were needed, but soon adapted to fulfil a much wider range of functions. Found wherever British and Commonwealth forces fought during the Second World War, this was one of the most flexibly vehicles in British service (Read Full Review)
