The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Hughes, NT. 19 February 1943. Anti-aircraft defence, with a Bren gun mounted on a tripod erected in the anti-aircraft defensive position. Weapons instructor Sergeant H. C. Johnson demonstrates the correct stance behind the gun to a group of station defence personnel (security guards), of No. 13 (Hudson) Squadron RAAF.
Hughes, NT. February 1943. Station defence personnel (security guards) of No. 13 (Hudson) Squadron RAAF, being briefed by weapons instructor Sergeant H. C. Johnson on how to operate the cocking handle
BREN GUN MOUNTED IN AN ANTI AIRCRAFT TRIPOD, PROBABLY AT RAAF HEADQUARTERS NORTH WESTERN AREA, 54 MILE, NT. 1943
Two members of a South African Army unit with a Bren gun mounted on a tripod so that it can be used in an anti aircraft role. Both can be seen wearing gas masks.
Probably LEIGHTERTON, ENGLAND. C. 1918. MEMBERS OF THE AUSTRALIAN FLYING CORPS (PROBABLY NO. 8 TRAINING SQUADRON) TRAINING WITH MACHINE GUNS. THE GUNS ARE A LEWIS MK 1 LIGHT MACHINE GUN MOUNTED ON A V
ON BOARD HM TRANSPORT LACONIA, AT SEA. 1942-03-24. VIEW OF THE LACONIA FROM AMIDSHIPS LOOKING AHEAD, AND SHOWING, ON LEFT LOWER PORTION OF PICTURE, A .303 BREN MARK 1 LIGHT MACHINE GUN MOUNTED IN AN A
Darwin NT. 1942. Australian troops recently returned from the Middle East are protected at a church parade by anti-craft gunners. They have set up a Bren gun on a tripod. Beside them is a huge ant hil
