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**Disbanded 1 April 1918 on the Western Front. <ref>parbo [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=225998&hl= 14 Machine Gun Squadron (Cavalry)] ''Great War Forum'' 24 March 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2015</ref>
*15: Formed 29 February 1916 for 15th (Meerut) Brigade in 2nd Indian Cavalry Division. Machine gun sections taken from 13th Hussars, 14th Lancers and Watson's Horse (of the Indian Army).
**This information from 1914-1918.net is stated to be incorrect, the correct information is stated to be: 15th Squadron was part of the 6th (Poona) Cavalry Brigade and was formed from (originally) the MG Sections of the 14th Hussars, 21 Cavalry and 22 Cavalry. It went back to India in July 1918, [although there were some men in Mesopotamia in October 1918]. Most of the Indian machine gunners were replaced by men of MGC (Cavalry) sent out from the UK.<ref>gunner parr [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=206807&p=2037804 6th Indian Cavalry Brigade - 15th Squadron Machine Gun Corps?] ''Great War Forum'' 17 February 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2015</ref> The same source also advises:
**16th Squadron was part of the 7 (Meerut) Cavalry Brigade and was formed from MG Sections from 13th Hussars, Watson's Horse and 14 Lancers.
**The 15th Machine Gun Squadron took part in the [[3rd Afghan War]] <ref>Hone, Mark et al. [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=196239 ''Photos of Afghan Campaign 1919''] Great War Forum 26 June 2013. Retrieved 9 August 2014</ref>
*22, 23 and 24: Formed in 1st Indian Mounted Brigade
*[https://archive.org/details/bookofmachinegun00long ''The Book of the Machine Gun''] by F.V. Longstaff and A. Hilliard Atteridge. 1917 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/stream/statisticsofmili00grea#page/174/mode/2up "Formation and Growth of the Machine-Gun Corps (May 1920)"] page 174, ''Statistics of the military effort of the British Empire during the Great War, 1914-1920'' published by HMSO 1922 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/throughpalestine17109gut ''Through Palestine with the 20th Machine Gun Squadron''] 1920 Project Gutenberg at Archive.org
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