Image:Vickers machine gun crew with gas masks.jpg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Image
• File history
• File links
• Metadata

Size of this preview: 800 × 498 pixel
Image in higher resolution (1243 × 773 pixel, file size: 566 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

	This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. The description on its description page there is shown below.
	Commons is attempting to create a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.

English: British Vickers machine gun crew wearing PH-type anti-gas helmets. Near Ovillers during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916. The gunner is wearing a padded waistcoat, enabling him to carry the machine gun barrel. See Image:Vickers machine gun crew with gas masks rear view.jpg for an alternate view of this crew.

Photo by Lt. J.W. Brooke
Imperial War Museum catalogue number Q 3995.

This artistic work created by the United Kingdom Government is in the public domain This is because it is one of the following: A photograph taken before 1st January 1957; or An engraving published before 1st January 1957; or An artistic work other than a photograph or engraving (eg a painting) which was created before 1st January 1957. See Copyright, Crown copyright artistic works and HMSO Email Reply.

File links

• Machine gun
• Poison gas in World War I

Metadata

This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified image.