Museum's inventory: MG 08 with canadian inscriptions on it.

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Guys, here I need your help to put some light on this machine gun.

My understanding is this MG was probably a war trophy brought back from by the 7th Infantry Battalion. The MG should have reach the collector's world than cross the country once again to make its way to Quebec Province. I didn't have a look in the Museum's archives so I do not have more information about it. As I'm saying, I'm running out of time to complete the inventory before Septembre.

Here is the information available on the 7th Infantry Battalion from Wikipedia.

The 7th Battalion (1st British Columbia), CEF was a battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force that saw service in the First World War. It was created on 2 September 1914 with recruits from British Columbia. The battalion set off for England on board the Virginian berthed in Quebec. They arrived in England on 14 October 1914 with a strength of 49 officers and 1083 men. The battalion became part of the 1st Canadian Division, 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade where it saw action at along the Western Front. The battalion returned to Canada on 18 April 1919, was demobilized on 25 April 1919, and disbanded soon after.

If anyone of you have more information, I'm curious to know more about it. Also, this one should fit the sled mount used with our brass coated Maxim Nordenfeld MG. I have to watch if those were brought in together or not.

Anyway... enjoy the view!

Don't be surprise... on the first pictures, this is the way the MG was stored. Today, it is not stored that way anymore. I don't know if I will be able to get a proper pin for the cover though...

Martin



















Not easy to take in picture as the inscriptions are fading away... it is written 7th Inf-Batt Canadians. I may be wrong.







This plate, welded under the machine gun is probably not original. I noticed few guns showing this kind of plate, with same typo. It must be from an old identification system used by another Museum or a collector.































 
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That's an MG08, not a 08/15, which was a later light machine gun version. Belongs on the Schlitten Lafette of your Nordenfeld Maxim. ;)

Grizz
 
Hi Martin.
Thank-you. Your doing a fabulous job doing the inventory at the museum and sharing this with us.
This MG is however, not an MG08/15, it is an MG08. The MG 08/15 was a lighter version of the MG08.
With a modifed, lighter receiver, smaller water water jacket. It was equipted with a buttstock, bipod,
pistol grip with a trigger mech.
Take care now.
Ursula
 
Oh... that's make sense... I'll edit the title and now I know the difference between the two models we have in the collection. I'll post soon some pictures of our 08/15 because I need to find the bipod. I know we have it, I saw it during the initial inventory.

Thanks for the comment.

Martin
 
This Maxim MG08 was captured on September 8, 1918 by the 22nd. Regiment at Sheetbbe, N.E. between Caix and Lequesnel and given to the Regiment as a war trophy.
Wonderful it has stayed with the regiment all this time.
Nice to see it still has the matching feed block. The feed block was normally removed as a way of deactivating the guns in the field.
The US Army, when they captured a Maxim broke the bottom pawl off the feed block to deactivate the gun and they also put a shot into the top cover if the battle was fluid.
With the Maxim 08/15 the pistol grip was broken off and the feed block removed to battle field deactivate them.
 
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