Royal Marines with unknown MG

[genkideskan]

Somebody knows more about this machine gun - or is it an rifle rest?

Any trace about the time this foto was made ?

http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk45/genkideskan/royalmarinesmg.jpg


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[pdf27]

Look more like Royal Navy than Royal Marines to me - the RN frequently sent landing parties ashore at the time this photo would have been taken, even arming them with cutlasses into WW1 (indeed, I can think of at least one incident where cutlasses were used in repelling boarders during WW1).

[Panzerknacker]

Maybe is just me but those rifles dont look like Enfields.

[genkideskan]

The Royal Navy has jad japanese Arisakas in WW. 1 -

[redcoat]

The photo is pre-WW1, they appear to be armed with the Lee-Metford rifle, which was used before the Lee-Enfield by the Royal Navy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee-Metford

I can't be 100% sure but it doesn't appear to be a MG, but a rifle stand of some kind, with a Lee-Metford rifle fitted to it

[genkideskan]

Well thats possible - Thanks for the help Redcoat.

[Panzerknacker]

Definately is not an MG, and thanks for the info about rifles.