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Here we see a column of Bren Gun Carriers from the 1st Battalion, Border Regiment moving through Orchies near the Franco-Belgian border on 13 October 1939, soon after the arrival of the BEF in France.
© IWM (O 134)
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)
