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YOU'LL NOTICE we're bringing you a new look to our newsletter this month. Every month we'll be sending you our tips for buying great pieces of military history, starting with this:

Top 5 Tips for Buying a Deactivated MkI Bren Light Machine Gun

THE MOST FAMOUS World War Two small arms weapon of the Commonwealth forces, the .303 Bren Light Machine Gun is today one of the most sought after deactivated weapons a collector can buy.

THE .303 BREN GUN and its equipment was approved for British service in August of 1938, and the earliest models...

THERE ARE MANY accounts of the Christmas Truce of 1914 when the soldiers of the Western Front laid down their arms on Christmas Day and met
in No Man's Land, exchanging food and cigarettes, as well as playing football and recovering the bodies of their fallen comrades. Some
estimates are that around 100,000 troops participated over a period of days and weeks around Christmas.

IT'S NOT UNCOMMON for remains of individual WW1 soldiers to be uncovered in France and Belgium during construction work on the
former Western Front battlefields. But last year, during the construction of a road near the small town of Carspach in the Alsace region,
an underground shelter was uncovered holding the remains of not just one, but twenty one German soldiers.