Mark Finneran Posted 5 February , 2016 Author Share Posted 5 February , 2016 (edited) Future collectors? Note bipod. Edited 31 December , 2017 by Mark Finneran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Finneran Posted 5 February , 2016 Author Share Posted 5 February , 2016 (edited) French display................. Edited 31 December , 2017 by Mark Finneran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Finneran Posted 5 February , 2016 Author Share Posted 5 February , 2016 (edited) Great British picture of a captured dug-out. Although concentrating on the 08/15 look at the other 'items' the troops seem to have their eye on Edited 31 December , 2017 by Mark Finneran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prussian Posted 5 February , 2016 Share Posted 5 February , 2016 Here is another one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Finneran Posted 5 February , 2016 Author Share Posted 5 February , 2016 Thank you The Prussian! Keep them coming. Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchtrotter Posted 5 February , 2016 Share Posted 5 February , 2016 Welcome back. TT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prussian Posted 7 February , 2016 Share Posted 7 February , 2016 Note the "Gurtfüller" on the left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Finneran Posted 8 February , 2016 Author Share Posted 8 February , 2016 (edited) Throughout history any weapon is a good weapon and bothe British and French produced manuals on how to operate captured German machine guns. See MG08 thread. Edited 31 December , 2017 by Mark Finneran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Finneran Posted 11 February , 2016 Author Share Posted 11 February , 2016 (edited) Another side on view. Edited 31 December , 2017 by Mark Finneran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Finneran Posted 11 February , 2016 Author Share Posted 11 February , 2016 (edited) Muzzle gland clearly visible in place of the traditional muzzle assembly. Edited 31 December , 2017 by Mark Finneran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchtrotter Posted 11 February , 2016 Share Posted 11 February , 2016 Quality images as ever. They don't turn up here. TT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toby Brayley Posted 11 February , 2016 Share Posted 11 February , 2016 Here is my MG08/15 1917 dated with traces of paint still on the jacket. She was saved from the furnace! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchtrotter Posted 11 February , 2016 Share Posted 11 February , 2016 Tony, lovely. Any details from top cover re number, maker and date? Nice display. TT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prussian Posted 11 February , 2016 Share Posted 11 February , 2016 No need to panic I have found my old MG08/15 thread to accompany MG08.Moderators please disregard my questions Hello Mark! Wonderful photos!!!!! Chapeau! To this photo: In the army list of honour (Ehrenrangliste) I found a Feuerwerks-Hauptmann (Fireworker-captain) with the name Drüsedau. He was listed in the Foot-artillery-regiment N°9, promoted to Major a.D. (off duty) after armistice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Finneran Posted 11 February , 2016 Author Share Posted 11 February , 2016 excellent background and supporting info. Very interesting. Thanks Mark Tony nice piece. More photos would be great. Mark Here is my MG08/15 1917 dated with traces of paint still on the jacket. She was saved from the furnace! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Finneran Posted 12 February , 2016 Author Share Posted 12 February , 2016 (edited) Interesting diagrams of MG positions taken from a British MG manual 1917 Edited 31 December , 2017 by Mark Finneran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Finneran Posted 12 February , 2016 Author Share Posted 12 February , 2016 (edited) More MG position details. Edited 31 December , 2017 by Mark Finneran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Finneran Posted 12 February , 2016 Author Share Posted 12 February , 2016 (edited) excellent training image - not so easy to manhandle the schlittens! Edited 31 December , 2017 by Mark Finneran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchtrotter Posted 12 February , 2016 Share Posted 12 February , 2016 Seems more had expedient / other type bipeds than then standard type? TT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 12 February , 2016 Share Posted 12 February , 2016 ... Front end with full muzzle assembly and very sharp moustaches. Would not swear to it, but that shoulder monogram looks like it might be one of the Wilhelm Rex regiments - I thought the Infanterie-Regiment Kaiser Wilhelm, König von Preußen (2. Württembergisches) Nr.120, but I think the cuffs are wrong... Trajan And should add, great photographs here and on the MG 08 thread - lots to be deduced from them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Finneran Posted 13 February , 2016 Author Share Posted 13 February , 2016 Yes TT you are right I have certainly given that impression with the supplied images but in reality the standard bipod was the most widely used. These expedient bipods are thinner, for weight purposes, and also higher (depending of course wher it is placed on the jacket) so in some rspects it adds to the poor handling of the 08/15. According to the live firers it becomes a much better weapon to use when the front muzzle adaptor is used which is an inter war modification. Mark Seems more had expedient / other type bipeds than then standard type? TT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Finneran Posted 14 February , 2016 Author Share Posted 14 February , 2016 (edited) A few images of the wooden MG08/15 training guns. These were for practising drills in lieu of the 'real thing' being needed at the front. Some are unit marked. Edited 31 December , 2017 by Mark Finneran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Finneran Posted 14 February , 2016 Author Share Posted 14 February , 2016 (edited) of interest are the bipods, either armourer made or taken from broken guns. Edited 31 December , 2017 by Mark Finneran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 16 February , 2016 Share Posted 16 February , 2016 The seated guys look to be Landsturm - that style of collar using Roman numerals for the corp and 'Arabic' for the battalion was introduced by an AKO on 14th April 1915. Any chance of a closer view of these? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Finneran Posted 19 February , 2016 Author Share Posted 19 February , 2016 (edited) 3 types of water connectors encountered. Edited 31 December , 2017 by Mark Finneran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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