Bren Gun Carrier, London Irish Rifles, 1939/40
Here we see Bren Gun Carrier 'Father O'Flynn' of the London Irish Rifles on exercises somewhere in Sussex in the winter of 1939-40.
© IWM (H 1185)
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
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