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*[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.
*There is a brief mention of the Machine Gun Corps in a short chapter "Royal Tank Corps", page 113 in [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/36694 ''The Army in India and Its Evolution: Including an account of the establishment of the Royal Air Force in India''] 1924. Compiled Officially. Digital Repository of GIPE (Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune, India]). A pdf download to your computer.
*[https://archive.org/details/waringardenofede00roosuoft ''War in the Garden of Eden''] by Kermit Roosevelt, Captain, Motor Machine Gun Corps 1919 Archive.org. Location Mesopotamia. The author was an American, the son of (pre WW1) US President Theodore Roosevelt, who was appointed an honorary Captain in the British Army in August 1917. Page 66 indicates the author was in the 14th Battery, Light-armoured motor-cars (14th L. A. M. B.). The fighting cars were Rolls-Royce.
*[https://archive.org/details/throughpalestine17109gut ''Through Palestine with the 20th Machine Gun Squadron''] 1920 Project Gutenberg at Archive.org, or from [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17109 Gutenberg.org]
*[https://archive.org/details/motorcycle16lond_ ''The Motor Cycle'']. Link is to ''Volume 16'', January to June 1916. Links for other available online volumes may be accessed [https://archive.org/search.php?query=publisher%3A%22London+%3A+%27The+Motor+Cycle%27%22&sort=-date here]. Archive.org. Mention of Despatch Riders and the Motor Machine Gun Service (MMGS).
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