Plan
Machine Gun Emplacement
A type of front line emplacement with which an infantry officer should be familiar, but which are constructed by and are entirely under the control of Machine Gun Companies.
HOW TO FIRE A MACHINE GUN IN CASE OF EMERGENCY
As a machine gun textbook is very dry, and it is difficult for a man who is not of a mechanical turn of mind to obtain the most elementary knowledge of the action from a book, officers should lose no time in getting in touch with a machine gun officer and learn from actual experience, how to load, fire and rectify simple stoppage.
Lewis Gun. To load, put a full magazine on the magazine post with the cocking handle forward.
Pull back cocking handle to its fullest extent, and raise tangent sight unless the target is within 200 yards.
To fire, press the trigger and the gun will continue to fire as long as pressure on the trigger is maintained. It will only stop when (a) the magazine is emptied; (b) stoppage is set up. To remedy this (1) take off empty magazine and put on full one, reload relay and fire; (2) cocking handle stops in one of three positions. To remedy this one must have a thorough knowledge of remedying of stoppages.