France'40 unit art

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My grandfather was originally trained as a Schwarzlose machine gunner. He absolutely hated that gun, he said it weighed a ton and they would load up extra charged ammo to basically break the gun, after which they did not need to bother dragging it along for the rest of the exercise...

He was born in 1909, so that’s probably late twenties or in the thirties on repeat call up. He was drafted in WW2, but at that stage he was deployed as a motorcycle dispatch rider.