For Sale: Bren Drum magazines and box

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by rob love

Peter Laidler wrote about a guy who ran out of cover to take on a German low flying aircraft with a Bren gun on the mk1 tripod with AA leg. The rest of the guys ran under a tree for cover. The guy was the bravest dead man they ever knew. A 303 is no match for a 20mm cannon.

Worse must have been the Lakeman mount. What a contraption. To mount the gun you can either fight with the two coat hanger hooks (rather like a Chinese puzzle) or remove the barrel, install the hooks and replace the barrel, neither option great with that Stuka.

Here's a Mk.1 Bren on a Humber Mk.II. No sight to be seen and the trooper's aiming eye seems to be looking over the top of the drum. Maybe every second round was a tracer?