British 64 Pounder Rifled Muzzle-Loaded ( RML ) Gun on a Moncrieff disappearing mount, at Scaur Hill Fort, Bermuda.

The Gatling gun may have been the first automatic weapon, though the modern trigger-actuated machine gun was not widely introduced until the First World War with the German " Spandau " and British Lewis Gun.

* L118 Light Gun British 105mm towed gun-howitzer of the late 20th century ; a variant serves in the US military as the M119 A1 Howitzer

Much of the colony rose in revolt in the Gun War ( 1880-1881 ), inflicting significant casualties upon the colonial British forces sent to subdue it.

The battalion was organised as three Gun Batteries, each with six 105 mm field howitzers ( British 25 pounder guns converted to 105 mm caliber ) from the former GTR Artillery Battalion, a HQ Battery and a Service Battery.

* 1914 – World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.

British Gun Carrier Mark I ( 60 pdr ).

Under the command of the British minister to China, Claude Maxwell MacDonald, the legation staff and security personnel defended the compound with small arms, three machine guns, and one old muzzle-loaded cannon, which was nicknamed the International Gun because the barrel was British, the carriage Italian, the shells Russian, and the crew American.

He later provoked criticism from the Bush administration for supporting British GCHQ translator Katharine Gun and calling on others to leak any papers that reveal government deception about the invasion.

In May 1941, British colleagues helped establish the Naval Mine Disposal School at the Naval Gun Factory, Washington, D. C. Not to be outdone, the U. S. Navy, under the command of Lt. Draper L. Kauffman ( who would go on to found the Underwater Demolition Teams better known as UDTs or the U. S. Navy Frogmen ), created the Naval Bomb Disposal School at University Campus, Washington, D. C. U. S. Ordnance and British Royal Engineers would forge a partnership that worked quite effectively in war a friendship persisting to this day.

The gun became so important to the British war effort that they even produced a movie, The Gun, that encouraged workers on the assembly line to work harder.

In addition to the Protopunk of New York's The Velvet Underground and Suicide, and Detroit ’ s The Stooges and MC5, Kember's and Pierce's musical influences included: US 60s Psychedelic rock, such as The Thirteenth Floor Elevators ; US 60s Garage rock ; 60s British Invasion bands ; Rock n ' Roll ; Buddy Holly ; Surf music ; The Beach Boys ; early, seminal Electronic music, e. g. Silver Apples, Delia Derbyshire and Laurie Anderson ; Krautrock ; The Gun Club, The Cramps and Tav Falco ’ s Panther Burns ; early Chicago blues, e. g. Bo Diddley, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and Howlin ’ Wolf ; early Delta blues ; gospel and early Staple Singers ; Otis Reading ; the production techniques of Brian Wilson, Joe Meek and Phil Spector ; and the avant-garde jazz and free jazz of Sun Ra and John Coltrane.

Because the U. S. Army Coast Artillery Corps was not satisfied with the Army's 37mm Gun M1, in September 1940 General George C. Marshall asked the British for the loan of four Bofors 40 mm guns with Kerrison Predictors for testing.

As an example of such a signal, in Vancouver, British Columbia, a " 9 O ' Clock Gun " is still shot every night at 9 pm.

Also in 1992, on Salisbury Plain, the HAC was the last British Army unit to fire the twenty-five pounder in the field, as the Gun Troop retrained onto the 105mm Light Gun.

* The Battle for Kohima 19440: The Narrative of the 2nd Battalion the Manchester Regiment-The Machine Gun Battalion of the British 2nd Division ISBN 1-873907-00000001-X.

In August 1920 Winston Churchill told the British Parliament that the BAOR consisted of approximately 13, 360, consisting of, Staff, Cavalry, Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, Infantry, Machine Gun Corps, Tanks, and the usual ancillary services.

Members of the Milice, armed with captured British Bren Gun | Bren Guns and Lee-Enfield # Rifle_No_4 | No. 4 Lee-Enfield Rifles

The album Nipples was recorded in 1969 with many of the Machine Gun musicians including drummer Han Bennink, pianist Fred Van Hove and tenor saxophonist Evan Parker, plus British free-improv guitarist Derek Bailey.

The Puckle Gun drew few investors and never achieved mass production or sales to the British armed forces, mostly because British gunsmiths at the time could not easily make the weapon's many complicated components.

The British, who deployed large numbers of Indian Army troops under Smuts, faced difficult logistic problems supplying their pursuing army deep in the interior, which they attempted to overcome by the formation of a large Carrier Corps of native porters.

* Carrier is the English name for the Dakelh, an indigenous First Nations people of British Columbia, Canada

The Interior of British Columbia was home to the Salishan language groups such as the Shuswap ( Secwepemc ) and Okanagan and southern Athabaskan language groups, primarily the Dakelh ( Carrier ) and the Tsilhqot ' in.

Because the C-47s served as paratrooper transports and glider tugs and because IX Troop Carrier Command would provide all the transports for both British parachute brigades, this massive force could deliver only 60 % of the ground forces in one lift.

The Commonwealth and the United States were the most prolific users of vehicle mounted flame weapons ; the British and Canadians fielded the " Wasp " ( a Universal Carrier fitted with a flamethrower ) at infantry battalion level, beginning in mid 1944, and eventually incorporating them into infantry battalions.

The Dakelh ( formerly known as the " Carrier tribe "), the indigenous people of the inland of British Columbia, tell a number of similar stories.

In 1997, following British Airways ' announcement that it was to remove the Union Flag from its tailfins in favour of world images, Virgin introduced a Union Flag design on the winglets of its aircraft and changed the red dress on the Scarlet Lady on the nose of aircraft to the union flag with the tag line " Britain's Flag Carrier ".

In the late 1990s, the yard was part of the then British Aerospace's team for the Royal Navy's Future Carrier ( CVF ) programme.

* Carrier preselect, a landline telephone option that lets European customers use a third party for call charges instead of using the national operator ( British Telecom, KPN, Telekom, Swisscom, Belgacom, etc.

British Columbia, before the arrival of the Europeans, was home to many Indigenous peoples speaking more than 30 different languages, including Babine, Beaver, Carrier, Tsilhqot ' in, Gitksan, Haida, Halkomelem, Kaska, Kutenai, St ' at ' imcets, Nisga ' a, Nuu-chah-nulth, Nuxálk, Sekani, Secwepemc, Sinixt, Sḵwxwú7mesh, Tagish, Tahltan, Nlaka ' pamux, Tlingit, Tsetsaut, and Tsimshian.

Armour support comprised nineteen Semovente 47 / 32 and eight Semovente 75 / 18 self-propelled guns plus thirty L3 light tanks ( comparable in size and armament to the British Bren Gun Carrier ).

She subsequently moved to Prince George, British Columbia to serve as the director of child and family services for Carrier Sekani Family Services, and later as co-ordinator of the Northern Aboriginal Authority for Families.

** MV Empire MacAlpine enters service as the first British Merchant Aircraft Carrier, or " MAC-ship.

* May 2 – The British East Indies Fleets 21st Aircraft Carrier Squadron – consisting of the aircraft carriers HMS Emperor, HMS Hunter, HMS Khedive, and HMS Stalker – begin support of Operation Dracula, a British assault on Rangoon, Burma.

* May 4 – 5 – Carrier aircraft of the British Pacific Fleet strike airfields on the Sakishima Gunto.

* July 24 – 26 – Aircraft from carriers of the British 21st Aircraft Carrier Squadron strike Japanese airfields and shipping in northern Malaya.

* September 10 – Five escort carriers of the British East Indies Fleets 21st Aircraft Carrier Squadron anchor off Singapore to support Operation Zipper, the British reoccupation of Malaya.

* Carrier Frequency Shift, a term used by the British Military to refer to RTTY

The Dakelh ( pronounced ) or Carrier are the indigenous people of a large portion of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada.

* The Dakelh ( Carrier ) peoples of the Northern and Central Interior of British Columbia, and their subgroup the Wet ' suwet ' en

The name derives from a corruption of that of the British " Carrier Corps ", that used to be based in this area.