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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.
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This photograph Q 3995 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 1900-13)
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John Warwick Brooke  (1886–1929)  wikidata:Q29267899
 
John Warwick Brooke
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Warwick Brooke
Description British photographer
Date of birth/death 30 May 1886 Edit this at Wikidata 1929 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Uxbridge
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