Image: 38th Battalion (Ottawa), CEF, with M1895 Colt–Browning machine guns, Prospect Camp, Bermuda, in 1915
Description: 38th Battalion (Ottawa), Canadian Expeditionary Force, soldiers train with Colt–Browning machine guns at Prospect Camp in the Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda in 1915. The battalion was posted to the British Army Bermuda Garrison (the second Canadian battalion to serve in Bermuda during the First World War, having relieved the Royal Canadian Regiment) in place of a regular British Army battalion (the 2nd Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment) that had proceeded to the Western Front. The battalion remained at Bermuda from 12 August, 1915, until 20 May, 1916 before proceeding to the Western Front.
Title: 38th Battalion (Ottawa), CEF, with M1895 Colt–Browning machine guns, Prospect Camp, Bermuda, in 1915
Credit: Digital photograph of a photographic print from negative. (An) original is evidently at the Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa Regimental Museum.
Author: British Army (Bermuda Command)
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
Attribution Required?: No
Image usage
The following page links to this image:
,_CEF,_with_M1895_Colt–Browning_machine_guns,_Prospect_Camp,_Bermuda,_in_1915.jpg){kind=link}