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Machine Gun
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| How to find information about individuals who served in this corps |
| 1915.10.22 | Machine Gun
Corps formed with three branches: Cavalry, Infantry, Motor Machine Gun Service |
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| 1916.11.18 | Heavy Branch of Motor MG Service formed | |
| 1917.07.27 | Heavy Branch withdrawn to form Tank Corps, and Motor MG Service gradually disbanded | |
| 1918.03 | MG companies grouped in battalions | |
| 1922. | MG Corps disbanded | |
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History of the Machine Gun Corps (MGC Old Comrades Association) | |
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The Vickers Machine Gun, by Richard Fisher. | |
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Units That Used the Vickers Machine Gun, by Richard Fisher. | |
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The Machine Gun Corps in 1914-1918, by Chris Baker (The British Army in the Great War) | |
| HQ & Depot: | ||
| Corps Base Depot formed at Camiers, France, 1918?; disbanded 1919 | ||
| Corps Depot formed 1919 at Shorncliff; disbanded 1922 | ||
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| Machine Gun School, Grantham [1915- ] | ||
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F.M. HM King George V | |
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Victoria Crosses, by Michael Chapman (VC Reference) | |
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Heroes of the MGC (MGC Old Comrades Association) | |
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Famous MGC Men (MGC Old Comrades Association) | |
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Machine-Gun Corps Old Comrades' Association (official site) | |
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Machine-Gun Corps Old Comrades' Association, by Judith Lappin (Hellfire Corner) | |
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Hutchison, G.S. Machine guns : their history and tactical employment (being also a history of the Machine Gun Corps, 1916-1922. London : Macmillan, 1938. | |
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Russell, Arthur. With the Machine Gun Corps from Grantham to Cologne. London : Dranes, 1923. | |
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Crutchley, C.E. Machine gunner, 1914 - 1918. Purnell Book Services Ltd., 1975. | |
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Crutchley, C.E. Machine gunner, 1914 - 1918: personal experiences of the Machine Gun Corps. [new ed.] Beverley : Pen & Sword, 2006: ISBN: 1844153592 | |
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Stevens, F.A. The Machine Gun Corps : a short history. Tonbridge : F.A. Stevens, 1981. | |
| Battalions and Squadrons: | ||
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Reid, C. H. War diary, 1st Machine Gun Squadron, 1918-1919. London : Straiker Brothers, 1922. | |
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Kindell, A.O.W. Through Palestine with the Twentieth Machine-Gun Squadron Sherwood Rangers Yeo. South Notts Hussars. London : J.M. Baxter & co., 1920. | |
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History and memoir of the 33rd Battalion, Machine Gun Corps and of the 19th, 98th, 100th, and 248th M.G. Companies. London : Waterlow Brothers & Layton Ltd., 1919. | |
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Jones, W. Grantley. Record of the 110th Company (21st Division), Machine Gun Corps, B.E.F., France, 1916-1917. Bristol : [s.n.], 1962. [unpublished typescript] | |
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Barrey, S.R. ; and Frary, E.J. (eds.) An informal record of 26 Machine Gun Training Centre (formed by Royal Northumberland Fusiliers and Middlesex Regiment). Chester : W.H. Evans & Co., 1946. | |
