Vickers MG Collection & Research Association

Registered Charity 1210266 (England and Wales) for education in military history and firearms related (but not exclusively) to the Vickers machine gun.

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If you would like to know more about the #VickersMG Collection and Research Association, what we do and how we approach military history, then take a look through the following images.

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@rentaquill has been doing a #30DayMapChallenge and we’ve just been scanning in this Germany Town Plans map book 1944 from the archive. It’ll be a few weeks but it will then be available for the Vickers MG Supporter Corps to view and download.

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@rentaquill @Stu_Lyle Legacy of the Machine Gun Corps! A fascinating chap who was chairman of the OCA in the 1960s and gifted several items of Wade Pottery to the members.

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MORE MANUALS!! An eclectic set of manuals now on the Vickers MG Supporter Corps archive. Small Arms Training from Rhodesia, Garrison Artillery and Cavalry Training and Regimental Standing Orders for the Cameronians! Now online. If you like what we do, support us and get access.

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Watch here: https://t.co/TAmfdsjdgi

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SMALL ARMS SMALL TALK: Episode 2 now online. Watch or listen to Rich chat to Jonathan of the @Royal_Armouries about running firearms collections and the tasks that come with that.

If you like what we do, please subscribe and join the Vickers MG Supporter Corps.

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@Roma_1203 @CalumDouglas1 Great! Thank you for your support. We’re continually adding content and digitising more and more every week.

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We've even added the entirety of the MGC Database on the National Archives for free! If there's a photo or document linked to a person, that's then available on our Patreon.

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We've catalogued our archive onto the National Archives' Discovery Catalogue to make it more accessible. Most of our files are digitised and available through our online archive hosted on Patreon. Thousands of manuals, images, documents and more.

[Calum E. Douglas FRAeS @CalumDouglas1]

Why aren`t you searching for stuff in the National Archives ?

Some limited materials are digitised and can be downloaded for free, but even just finding files gives you a lot of information, you can go there any read or copy them, or pay someone to copy them for you.

This is how history books are written.

Go on. Type something in I dare you.

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@Roma_1203 @CalumDouglas1 We actively scan and share those documents through the Vickers MG Supporter Corps archive we host on Patreon. There are now thousands of posts including hundreds of full manuals, including niche variants, as well as supporting documentation and images.

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SMALL ARMS SMALL TALK: Episode 1 now online! Watch or listen @historicfirearm and Rich talk about the Bren and our Emma Gees Study Series. Find it on Spotify, Patreon, Apple and others WITHOUT ads but please join the Vickers MG Supporter Corps to help us. #militaryhistory

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New manual uploads today! British, Canadian and New Zealand versions of Section Leading for the start of the Second World War, Yeomanry training in the First World War and even Sniping in the 1970s! All available on the #VickersMG Supporter Corps library.

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#SmallArmsSmallTalk Episode 1 now online! Come and watch or listen to our new podcast. Available on Patreon, Spotify and Apple. Free of ads too.

If you like what we do, support us! Registered Charity 1210266.

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The time has come! Our new podcast launches tomorrow morning (Thursday 29 October) and episodes will release weekly!

Check out the Vickers MG Supporter Corps on Patreon and it will soon be on other outlets too. If you like what we do, please support us.

#militaryhistory

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@historicfirearm And now on Apple and Spotify!

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I just flicked through this file again and @AndyAitcheson there are the training notes, and some other files, of either the adjutant or the OC of 155 Bde Supply Coy and then the 52 (L) Div Ammn Coy RASC as well! Even the Bde accounts are there.

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We’re working through some amazing archive content at the moment. This file is just one in a box of training papers from the Second World War.

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It will probably take a month to describe in the The National Archives, UK Discovery catalogue, then scan, prepare for upload as searchable PDFs and share through our Patreon archive but it’ll be worth it!

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@ReassessHistory I'm always intrigued to see how CANLOAN has been used!

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@DrTregoning They packed in the content! It's a fascinating file and seems to be bundled with a suite of 'London District Tactics School' documents.