0
Not sure whether this helps - but an ancestor embarked from Marseilles 21 November 1916 and disembarked at Salonika 29 November. He was a private in the 1/14th London Regiment (London Scottish) - and his grandson says that he was a machine gunner. He left Salonika by sea and disembarked at Alexandria 3 July 1917.
Still curious? Ask our experts.
Chat with our AI personalities
Ezra
Rene
LaoAdd your answer:
Earn +20 pts
What is a Lewis gun?
A Lewis gun was an early type of machine gun used in WW1.
What ww1 gun needed 4-6 men to work?
the machine gun
Was the Lewis machine gun new or improved?
I believe it was improved later on after WW1
Were there machine guns in world war 1?
Yes. There were machine guns in WW1. There were Gatlin Guns, a type of machine gun, in the Civil War.Yes
How many casualties did the machine gun cause in ww1?
There are no figures for the total number of casualties caused by machine guns in WW1. But an internet search found an example of the effectiveness of the weapon - On the first day of the Somme Offensive, the British lost 60.000 soldiers mostly due to machine gun fire.
