MACHINE GUNS
ARMY COUNCIL'S PLANS
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
LONDON, January 28,
Carrying out its decision to increase the infantry’s machine gun power, the Army Council is adding n machine gun section to each battalion now possessing a machine gun platoon. Battalions will ultimately be equipped with a machine gun company, with twelve guns, carried on lorries, the establishment being one machine gun and three bayonet companies, adding altogether 544 guns. Cavalry regiments at present possess a machine gnu squadron.— ‘ The Times.’
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Evening Star, Issue 19777, 30 January 1928, Page 5
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81MACHINE GUNS Evening Star, Issue 19777, 30 January 1928, Page 5
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