Vickers MG Collection & Research Association

01/11/2026

Episode 1 now online! Come and watch or listen to our new podcast. Available on Patreon, Spotify and Apple. Free of ads too.

If you like what we do, support us! Registered Charity 1210266.

28/10/2026

The time has come! Our new podcast launches tomorrow morning (Thursday 29 October) and episodes will release weekly!

Check out the Vickers MG Supporter Corps on Patreon and it will soon be on other outlets too. If you like what we do, please support us.

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27/10/2026

We’re working through some amazing archive content at the moment. This file is just one in a box of training papers from the Second World War.

It will probably take a month to describe in the The National Archives, UK Discovery catalogue, then scan, prepare for upload as searchable PDFs and share through our Patreon archive but it’ll be worth it!

The current box is from the Alistair Taylor legacy that we are managing and will add to the many thousands of documents we already have online. Our online archive is accessible through a subscription to www.patreon.com/vickersmg

How much different it is to the courses being taught today?

27/10/2026

New manuals now on the VMGCRA Patreon archive. Sign up and access thousands of primary sources like these from the 1930s that give great insight into how the British Army ran immediately before the Second World War.

15/10/2026

Our latest video is now available: The Vickers MG Exhibition.

If you couldn’t come and see it in person The Pavilion Bisley - Guest Rooms, Bisley, Woking then this video has The Armourer's Bench show you around the Exhibition. Head to our YouTube channel to watch.

This was a free Exhibition. If you like what we do, please join the Vickers MG Supporter Corps through Patreon or JustGiving and help us continue to do this in the future.

14/10/2026

1915 The was formed. Only in existence until 1922, it consolidated machine gunnery from across the army and developed organisation, training and doctrine that resonates still today.

We have an extensive archive of MGC photos, documents and information that is unsurpassed and represents many of the approximately 200,000 men who served. We actively add to it each and every week! Join the Vickers MG Supporter Corps to contribute and find out more.

14/10/2026

One of our favourite pictures! 2 Middlesex (and this picture) are on the book A CANLOAN Officer that we publish. https://vickersmg.blog/product/canloan/

Vickers machine gun team of 2nd Middlesex, (3rd Infantry Division MG battalion), providing indirect fire support for the attack on Overloon, Netherlands - 14 October 1944

Norris (Sgt) Photographer
IWM B 10814 / WWP-PD

Vickers MG Collection & Research Association

13/10/2026

A slight distraction while I was scanning in some AB439s today. This chap would have been a busy guy i’m sure! Lt Joseph Spencer MC. Scans will be available for the Vickers MG Supporter Corps in the coming weeks.

03/10/2026

We have the Army Machine Gun Division and FN joining us at The Pavilion Bisley today - don’t miss out!