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Re: Vickers Machine Gunners
Posted by David Walsh from Kitchener on Canada on November 11, 1998 at 14:48:50:
In Reply to: Vickers Machine Gunners posted by Richard Fisher on October 28, 1998 at 07:53:28:
My father, George P Walsh, is a veteran of the Royal
Montreal Regiment RMR,which I understand was a
machine gun regiment, and tells me that when war
was declared he was considered an expert on the vickers
machine gun, having been a reservist through the 30‘s.
He enlisted thinking he would stay in Canada as an
instructor. He also got married, Nov 11,39, and was in
England by Christmas. I recall seeing a news paper
clipping of him and his vickers shortly after their
arrival in England.
The only time he was told to fire at the enemy was
one dark night the were bivouacked on Epsom? Downs
when the Germans started night raids and bombs were falling
all around them.
An officer ran up and told him to set up his gun
and start firing into the night sky. At things he
couldnt see. Not to mention the frendlys that were also
up there.
His comment to me was "the gun was bloody usless".
a relic from a previous war.
The RMR‘s last major campain was trying to cross
the Leopold Canal Belgium in rubber boats into a
German crossfire. That was the end of the regiment.
Posted by David Walsh from Kitchener on Canada on November 11, 1998 at 14:48:50:
In Reply to: Vickers Machine Gunners posted by Richard Fisher on October 28, 1998 at 07:53:28:
My father, George P Walsh, is a veteran of the Royal
Montreal Regiment RMR,which I understand was a
machine gun regiment, and tells me that when war
was declared he was considered an expert on the vickers
machine gun, having been a reservist through the 30‘s.
He enlisted thinking he would stay in Canada as an
instructor. He also got married, Nov 11,39, and was in
England by Christmas. I recall seeing a news paper
clipping of him and his vickers shortly after their
arrival in England.
The only time he was told to fire at the enemy was
one dark night the were bivouacked on Epsom? Downs
when the Germans started night raids and bombs were falling
all around them.
An officer ran up and told him to set up his gun
and start firing into the night sky. At things he
couldnt see. Not to mention the frendlys that were also
up there.
His comment to me was "the gun was bloody usless".
a relic from a previous war.
The RMR‘s last major campain was trying to cross
the Leopold Canal Belgium in rubber boats into a
German crossfire. That was the end of the regiment.
