ALLIED FORCES
EQUIPMENT IN BRITAIN
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, August 10.
On a high windswept down in the Home counties Czech, Norwegian, Dutch and Belgian officers were given a demonstration of the various types of arms these soldiers will use in the coming decisive battles for world freedom.
Unlike the French. for whom French arms brought back from Norway are available, many of these other soldiers of the Allied cause arrived in England without equipment and will have tdh)e refitted with those arms used by the British Army. The Czech soldiers arc specially pleased to be armed again with the Bren gun, to which, of course, they are well used and which they hold in high regard. General Freicher. who commands the Norwegian forces, is specially impressed with the Vickers heavy gun.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1940, Page 7
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