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Here's the first part of my photos from a brilliant weekend, going to be a very large thread i'm afraid as took over 300 photos

Middlesex Regiment

"Right, now what do I do?!"

Martin teaching me how to strip the Lewis gun

One of the Old Contemptible's Lewis's (Lewii?  :lol: )

Fantastic MG08

Lewis gun innards in the museum

My Lewis post (I think Zonnebeke this year was 'year of the Lewis' for us Brits)

Meg the mule, one of my favourite displays

Australian Light Horse, cracking guys

Cooling fins and barrel of a Lewis gun

1918 Vickers on a 1915 tripod

Crown and Anchor game

Dirck about to lob some stick grenades at us

Me and my Lewis post

Middlesex Regiment after their march to Tyne Cot and back, well done guys, hope to join you next time

I say, who are those three really small people that look like Pete and John from the OC's, and Malcolm from the GWS?



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More photos, hopefully plenty more tomorrow















Can anyone ID this bomb? It was in the tent used by the company that detects ordinance

















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This is the last batch of photos (except for those of Polygon Wood which i'll put up in a new thread), most of the remainders are similar to those already put up, so if anyone wants any photos of themself, let me know, i'll have a look and then e-mail you any I find.

I've included some photos from the museum - for those that haven't been, I highly reccommend it, in my opinion it was better than the Imperial War Museum







Selection of Belgian personal armour

















One of the Old Contemptible's tents, including Pete's fantastic inflatable officers pillow

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Fantastic stuff. The MG08 is on a tripod, I notice, which means it's probably Belgian. The dog cart would seem to confirm that.

And there's a Madsen! Who was in charge of that?

The helmet with perforated visor was a Belgian experiment, and the Arditi armour was trialled but not adopted.

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Oops, sorry didn't notice your post! The Belgian Dog Cart was on a seperate display, the MG08 on a German display. The Madsen was with the 14-21 society, a UK based group

http://www.c20warfare.org/191421/191421main.htm

The main Madsen section is the 1st Musketen Battalion. They'll be at several WW1 living history events throughout the UK this summer, so if you're interested in seeing it I could ask them if they'll take the Madsen to a display you'll be at?

Cheers, Rob

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