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Dave Voisey @davev-vickersmg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

History teachers, and @histassoc.bsky.social folks, the Vickers Assoc have a night (4th Oct) with @davidolusoga.bsky.social. This is off the back of his excellent gun through time tour which we supported. Limitted tickets available so grap whilst you can. vickersmg.blog/product/the-...

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The Vickers MG Exhibition Presents: An Evening with David Olusoga

We are really pleased to announce that David Olusoga has confirmed he will be speaking for us at our exhibition on SUNDAY EVENING, 4 October 2026. This is a special event just for us as a thank you…

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Vickers MG Collection & Research Association @vickersmg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

#onthisday 1916 Private Andrew Sutherland of 56 Machine Gun Company, 19 Division was wearing this helmet when he received two bullets to the head at La Boiselle on the Somme. He survived and would go on to serve in the Royal Engineers and live until 1969.

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Vickers MG Collection & Research Association @vickersmg.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Army Form B2512A. NOTICE To be given to a man at the time of his offering to join the Army. Short Service. War Office William Henry Williams. Recruiting Office, 14 Union Street, Swansea. AT2025.11.239 19160301

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Army Form B2512A. NOTICE To be given to a man at the time of his offering to join the Army. Short Service.

War Office William Henry Williams. Recruiting Office, 14 Union Street, Swansea. AT2025.11.239 19160301

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Vickers MG Collection & Research Association @vickersmg.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Army Form E518. Calling Out Notice (Reserve and Auxiliary Forces Act, 1939. Territorial Army) War Office DALE, George William, Gnr, 4683939, 96th Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Territorial Army), The Drill Hall Castleford. AT2025.11.238 19390903

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Army Form E518. Calling Out Notice (Reserve and Auxiliary Forces Act, 1939. Territorial Army)

War Office DALE, George William, Gnr, 4683939, 96th Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Territorial Army), The Drill Hall Castleford. AT2025.11.238 19390903

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Vickers MG Collection & Research Association @vickersmg.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Head to Patreon to find out more about our Demo Day on Saturday 18 July 2026. We will be taking the #VickersMG and the personal weapons of the machine gunners to a range in the U.K. and people can come along to watch these iconic historic items being fired.

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Vickers MG Collection & Research Association @vickersmg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Machine-gun Tactics 1910! A brilliant book on how machine guns were used around the world prior to the First World War. Available in full as PDF and JPG for members of the Vickers MG Supporter Corps on Patreon. Join for £5 (plus applicable VAT and Patreon fees) per month.

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Vickers MG Collection & Research Association @vickersmg.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

How many different types of #VickersMG ammunition box are there? Well we’re pretty sure we have most of them. For the last couple of days, a couple of our volunteers have been busy cleaning and cataloguing the belt boxes we have in the collection.

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Vickers MG Collection & Research Association @vickersmg.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Unit markings! Great to find these stamped items while cataloguing in the #VickersMG collection. Some great #firstworldwar heritage here. These are my best guesses. Am I right?

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Vickers MG Collection & Research Association @vickersmg.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Pointer, Staff, Mark 1. Used to help indicate a target to someone looking over your shoulder. Part of a machine gunner’s kit in the Second World War but a general piece for instructors ever since it seems.

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Vickers MG Collection & Research Association @vickersmg.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Can you see it? Given that we’re regularly printing and editing materials and publications, spotting a spelling mistake on something in the artefact collection is reassuring. Granted, they had more important things to focus on. This is a printed graticule card for indirect fire. #vickersmg

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Vickers MG Collection & Research Association @vickersmg.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

On Monday evening (27 April) we will be at G-Live, Guildford, to support @davidolusoga.bsky.social for his @faneproductions.bsky.social ‘A Gun Through Time’ stage show. We had the opportunity to show the devastation of the #VickersMG a few weeks ago and the audience get to see this.

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Vickers MG Collection & Research Association @vickersmg.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

We’re pleased to have moved from the text drafting to the layout phase of our next book: The Bren Gun in North West Europe and at Home - Infantry 1938-41. It’ll be ready in the next couple of months and probably in time for TankFest.

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Vickers MG Collection & Research Association @vickersmg.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Here’s our archive in action! Great to see it and we’d love to see more of it. Please go to our Patreon to get access and support what we do (another thousand archive wallets ordered yesterday and sixty more storage boxes - over £500 spent on ‘logistics’ of managing this just this week).

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Vickers MG Collection & Research Association @vickersmg.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Sight alignment with the Thompson: the cocking handle of the M1928 made a good quick battle sight and avoided the complexity of the adjustable aperture sight. This is from the 1942 Gale and Polden ‘Mechanism Made Easy’ pamphlet that we uploaded to our Patreon library recently. #tommygun

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Vickers MG Collection & Research Association @vickersmg.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

What was Army Form No 1? There have been thousands of forms generated in the British Army and we're currently uploading examples of hundreds of them to our online archive. Turns out that Form No 1 was just a confirmation of a letter receipt! This one is an interesting one too.

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Vickers MG Collection & Research Association @vickersmg.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

We uploaded a batch of manuals to Patreon last night including a Canadian Army pamphlet on the Colt and S&W revolvers. This was a bespoke Pam to them rather than just a reprint of a British example. Great drawings. www.patreon.com/posts/154254...

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Vickers MG Collection & Research Association @vickersmg.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Friday Fonds - 13 February 2026 Our latest batch of archive uploads is now on Patreon. Here are some snippets of the files shared today, including a series of propaganda leaflets that will continue for several weeks.

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Vickers MG Collection & Research Association @vickersmg.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Interesting books for the Home Guard. We wonder how many survived filled in, let alone blanks like these. We have two examples from 7th North Riding of Yorkshire battalion that record a section’s attendance for 1943 to 1944 and all will be on our archive soon.

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Vickers MG Collection & Research Association @vickersmg.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Another dozen or so items added to the online archive today, including #MachineGunCorps postcards and images. www.patreon.com/posts/150040...

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Vickers MG Collection & Research Association @vickersmg.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Lieutenant A Slater signed a lot of permits!! These are from our archive and have been scanned today and will be shared on our archive soon. The numbers range from 9688 to 67662 and ALL are signed by the same permit officer. Theres even a CSM’s wife with her own permit and photo!

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Vickers MG Collection & Research Association @vickersmg.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Our latest Extra! Dispatches from the Dugout video discusses the Bren and how easy it was to strip and clean. Also close ups of our skeletonised Bren. #militaryhistory #notjustvickersmg

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Vickers MG Collection & Research Association @vickersmg.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

This upload deserves its own post! A seemingly innocuous Army Book 136 - a notebook - but a platoon roll book, issue book, orders book and lectures for 8th (Saxmundham) Suffolk Home Guard in 1943! Completely digitised and uploaded to the #VickersMG Patreon today.

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Vickers MG Collection & Research Association @vickersmg.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The First World War Vickers MG! Our latest infographic is now on Patreon as a free access post. Head there to learn more about who did what and what equipment was carried. It is a great piece of work so, although free, please do subscribe to support the work we do. www.patreon.com/posts/vicker...

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