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2 unusual facts about Machine Gun Corps


Machine Gun Corps

As well as motor cycles, other vehicles used included Rolls-Royce and Ford Model T cars.

Wilfrid Grigson

During the First World War Grigson served as a Lieutenant in the Machine Gun Corps, serving in four different theatres of war.


James Bellamy

The colonel agrees, and James is reassigned to the Guards Division of the Machine Gun Corps.


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British Army of the Rhine

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.

Étaples Military Cemetery

Pte Jim Bonella, Australian Machine Gun Corps (former Aussie Rules footballer)

Frederick Hotblack

Hotblack was commissioned into the Royal Norfolk Regiment in 1915 and served in the First World War as an intelligence officer in France before transferring to the then "Heavy Branch" of the Machine Gun Corps (later the Royal Tank Corps) in 1916.