File:Free french navy sloop 1940.jpg

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English: The French Browning Machine Gun being manned by two crew members wearing gas masks. They are on board the French sloop FFS COMMANDANT DUBOC at Plymouth. The ship is manned entirely by Free Frenchmen. Note the pipe leading out of the jacket of the machine gun to allow the liquid coolant to work.
Date Taken on 28 August 1940
Source
This photograph A 392 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01)
Author Royal Navy official photographer
Harold William John Tomlin  (1904–1964)  wikidata:Q87145961
 
Harold William John Tomlin
Alternative names
H W Tomlin; Harold Tomlin; Lieutenant H W Tomlin; H. W. J. Tomlin
Description photographer
Date of birth/death 1904 Edit this at Wikidata 1964 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Wandsworth Edit this at Wikidata Colchester Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q87145961

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