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.
We had the opportunity to show the devastation of the #VickersMG a few weeks ago and the audience get to see this.
April 25, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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.
We had the opportunity to show the devastation of the #VickersMG a few weeks ago and the audience get to see this.
November 25, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Fancy seeing the #VickersMG (and its friends and enemies) in action live in the UK?
April 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Fancy seeing the #VickersMG (and its friends and enemies) in action live in the UK?
Now on the VMGCRA Patreon. Sign up from just £3 per month and access these and much more #MachineGunCorps #FFWHist and #VickersMG history. www.patreon.com/vickersmg
November 15, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Now on the VMGCRA Patreon. Sign up from just £3 per month and access these and much more #MachineGunCorps #FFWHist and #VickersMG history. www.patreon.com/vickersmg
These dual-language manuals are really fascinating! This is a Canadian example we're scanning and sharing at the moment. #VickersMG #NotJustVickersMG
July 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
These dual-language manuals are really fascinating! This is a Canadian example we're scanning and sharing at the moment. #VickersMG #NotJustVickersMG
Linking names with pictures!
From the VMGCRA Patreon and the MGC Database we share on the @UkNatArchives @UKNatArcSector
#MachineGunCorps #FWWHist #FirstWorldWar #VickersMG
From the VMGCRA Patreon and the MGC Database we share on the @UkNatArchives @UKNatArcSector
#MachineGunCorps #FWWHist #FirstWorldWar #VickersMG
February 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Linking names with pictures!
From the VMGCRA Patreon and the MGC Database we share on the @UkNatArchives @UKNatArcSector
#MachineGunCorps #FWWHist #FirstWorldWar #VickersMG
From the VMGCRA Patreon and the MGC Database we share on the @UkNatArchives @UKNatArcSector
#MachineGunCorps #FWWHist #FirstWorldWar #VickersMG
On this day in 2000, John Hinton passed away. He was Rich’s granddad and very much his influence in starting to collect #VickersMG material, with his first (deactivated) Vickers coming in 1995. 30 years on, there are currently over forty in our collection.
January 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
On this day in 2000, John Hinton passed away. He was Rich’s granddad and very much his influence in starting to collect #VickersMG material, with his first (deactivated) Vickers coming in 1995. 30 years on, there are currently over forty in our collection.
Compare the #VickersMG with its comparators and compatriots. #Bren
May 1, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Compare the #VickersMG with its comparators and compatriots. #Bren
One of our highlights of the We Have Ways Fest was being able to borrow a truck from Track and Wheel, add some great reenactors from Spirit of Britain and top off with a little sound track and it shows how well made the #VickersMG radial anti-aircraft mount was!
September 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
One of our highlights of the We Have Ways Fest was being able to borrow a truck from Track and Wheel, add some great reenactors from Spirit of Britain and top off with a little sound track and it shows how well made the #VickersMG radial anti-aircraft mount was!
Many who served with the Vickers MMG during #WW2 held the gun in high esteem.
A look, this #InternationalMusueumDay, at regimental and personal pride and how 36 machine gunners turned the #VickersMG into an exhibit with a rich heritage.
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A look, this #InternationalMusueumDay, at regimental and personal pride and how 36 machine gunners turned the #VickersMG into an exhibit with a rich heritage.
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May 18, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Many who served with the Vickers MMG during #WW2 held the gun in high esteem.
A look, this #InternationalMusueumDay, at regimental and personal pride and how 36 machine gunners turned the #VickersMG into an exhibit with a rich heritage.
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A look, this #InternationalMusueumDay, at regimental and personal pride and how 36 machine gunners turned the #VickersMG into an exhibit with a rich heritage.
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Going to give a shoutout to @vickersmg.bsky.social
Please give them a follow. The work Rich and the team does is unparalled and their website features a great range of resources. Also worth checking out their Patreon too- www.patreon.com/vickersmg/
Please give them a follow. The work Rich and the team does is unparalled and their website features a great range of resources. Also worth checking out their Patreon too- www.patreon.com/vickersmg/
Get more from Vickers MG Collection and Research Association on Patreon
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November 27, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Going to give a shoutout to @vickersmg.bsky.social
Please give them a follow. The work Rich and the team does is unparalled and their website features a great range of resources. Also worth checking out their Patreon too- www.patreon.com/vickersmg/
Please give them a follow. The work Rich and the team does is unparalled and their website features a great range of resources. Also worth checking out their Patreon too- www.patreon.com/vickersmg/
Alfred’s world tour continued in Egypt. Here, he and his comrades were trained on the #VickersMG, as the unit was redesignated a machine gun battalion.
His first taste of active service came in January 1938, when the battalion began a tour of Palestine.
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His first taste of active service came in January 1938, when the battalion began a tour of Palestine.
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February 14, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Alfred’s world tour continued in Egypt. Here, he and his comrades were trained on the #VickersMG, as the unit was redesignated a machine gun battalion.
His first taste of active service came in January 1938, when the battalion began a tour of Palestine.
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His first taste of active service came in January 1938, when the battalion began a tour of Palestine.
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Great new content being prepared to upload to the #VickersMG Patreon this week. If you’re not a member, then you’re missing out on all these primary sources unavailable anywhere else online and otherwise buried deep in archives, if available at all!
#FirstWorldWar #SecondWorldWar
#FirstWorldWar #SecondWorldWar
March 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Great new content being prepared to upload to the #VickersMG Patreon this week. If you’re not a member, then you’re missing out on all these primary sources unavailable anywhere else online and otherwise buried deep in archives, if available at all!
#FirstWorldWar #SecondWorldWar
#FirstWorldWar #SecondWorldWar
Evolution of the #VickersMG tangent sight slide during the First World War.
#militaryhistory #firstworldwar
#militaryhistory #firstworldwar
April 29, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Evolution of the #VickersMG tangent sight slide during the First World War.
#militaryhistory #firstworldwar
#militaryhistory #firstworldwar
#OTD in 1944, 1st Bn Manchester Regiment was supporting 53rd (Welsh) Division at s'Hertogenbosch.
While the street fighting of this phase in the battle limited the use of the battalion’s #VickersMG platoons, D Company's 4.2" mortars were busy...
🧵 1/6 #WW2
🎥 IWM A70 183-5
While the street fighting of this phase in the battle limited the use of the battalion’s #VickersMG platoons, D Company's 4.2" mortars were busy...
🧵 1/6 #WW2
🎥 IWM A70 183-5
October 25, 2024 at 7:17 AM
#OTD in 1944, 1st Bn Manchester Regiment was supporting 53rd (Welsh) Division at s'Hertogenbosch.
While the street fighting of this phase in the battle limited the use of the battalion’s #VickersMG platoons, D Company's 4.2" mortars were busy...
🧵 1/6 #WW2
🎥 IWM A70 183-5
While the street fighting of this phase in the battle limited the use of the battalion’s #VickersMG platoons, D Company's 4.2" mortars were busy...
🧵 1/6 #WW2
🎥 IWM A70 183-5
We have developed some specific #DDAY content looking at the role the #VickersMG played. It was possibly the oldest small arm in official service that landed on 6 June and was in every British and Canadian Division - armoured and infantry, plus some French and US use!
June 5, 2024 at 1:26 PM
We have developed some specific #DDAY content looking at the role the #VickersMG played. It was possibly the oldest small arm in official service that landed on 6 June and was in every British and Canadian Division - armoured and infantry, plus some French and US use!
The new Chief Operations Officer in action! Find out more about changes to the #VickersMG Collection & Research Association in the newsletter coming out in the next few days.
April 6, 2024 at 6:52 PM
The new Chief Operations Officer in action! Find out more about changes to the #VickersMG Collection & Research Association in the newsletter coming out in the next few days.
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.
May 16, 2026 at 8:20 AM
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.
Check out the #VickersMG firing on our recent demo day www.patreon.com/posts/135402...
Demo Day - the Vickers MG | Vickers MG Collection and Research Association
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July 31, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Check out the #VickersMG firing on our recent demo day www.patreon.com/posts/135402...
Born #otd 1922 - John Hinton who went on to serve as a Vickers machine gunner in the Cheshire Regiment and remembered how to strip a #VickersMG forty years later!
Rich’s influence in starting to collect and set up the VMGCRA.
Rich’s influence in starting to collect and set up the VMGCRA.
November 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Born #otd 1922 - John Hinton who went on to serve as a Vickers machine gunner in the Cheshire Regiment and remembered how to strip a #VickersMG forty years later!
Rich’s influence in starting to collect and set up the VMGCRA.
Rich’s influence in starting to collect and set up the VMGCRA.
Thanks Ian. This was the subject of one of Rich’s film analysis videos. Some interesting detail in it.
43rd Division #VickersMG film analysis - Hill 112 July 1944
youtu.be/lGN-PD9h_gk
43rd Division #VickersMG film analysis - Hill 112 July 1944
youtu.be/lGN-PD9h_gk
43rd Division #VickersMG film analysis - Hill 112 July 1944
YouTube video by Vickers MG Collection & Research Association
youtu.be
November 15, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Thanks Ian. This was the subject of one of Rich’s film analysis videos. Some interesting detail in it.
43rd Division #VickersMG film analysis - Hill 112 July 1944
youtu.be/lGN-PD9h_gk
43rd Division #VickersMG film analysis - Hill 112 July 1944
youtu.be/lGN-PD9h_gk
The #VickersMG in Operations MARKET and GARDEN. Quite simply, there were loads of them! Check out our two infographics to find out more. #OMG80
September 17, 2024 at 6:37 AM
The #VickersMG in Operations MARKET and GARDEN. Quite simply, there were loads of them! Check out our two infographics to find out more. #OMG80
#VickersMG Q&A #4
YouTube video by Vickers MG Collection & Research Association
youtu.be
January 7, 2025 at 7:43 AM
#OTD 1915 The #machineguncorps was formed. Only in existence until 1922, it consolidated machine gunnery from across the army and developed organisation, training and doctrine that resonates still today.
#militaryhistory #firstworldwar #vickersmg
#militaryhistory #firstworldwar #vickersmg
October 14, 2025 at 9:28 AM
#OTD 1915 The #machineguncorps was formed. Only in existence until 1922, it consolidated machine gunnery from across the army and developed organisation, training and doctrine that resonates still today.
#militaryhistory #firstworldwar #vickersmg
#militaryhistory #firstworldwar #vickersmg