I accept your answer Martin as I think the part of using the gun must be as correct as well, though I thought more of the Finnish front, well...

Here´s something of it:

"A small amount (15 or so) of Chauchat LMGs had cumulated to Finnish Armed Forces by end of Finnish Civil War of 1918, at 1937 these were sold abroad. During Winter War Finnish military equipment shortage led to second coming of these dubious weapons, as France "generously donated" some 5000 Chauchat and 10 million rounds of ammunition for them to Finland. Weapons were delivered to Finland at February - March of 1940. This was so late that Chauchat was not issued to Finnish troops during Winter War, but during early part of Continuation War even some unfortunate front-line units got these issued as their light machineguns. At earliest possible possibility they were replaced with captured Soviet LMGs and were soon only used by home-front units and some field artillery units. After WW2 Chauchat LMGs were warehoused until 1955 when selling them out begun, last ones were sold to Interarmco at 1959 - 1960."

http://www.ankkurinvarsi.net/jaeger/LMG2.htm

Over to you Martin!

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