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*Refer Edwin Cross photographs below.
== External Links links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160331010021/http://www.machinegun.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/MGC%20Pack%2001.04.08.pdf Machine Gun Corps Pack] compiled by Jim Parker, now an archived webpage. Multiple pages, keep scrolling past some blank sections at the bottom of sections. Research and detailed background information, including details of uniforms, from [https://web.archive.org/web/20160407031158/http://www.machinegun.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk Machine Gun Corps Research], now archived.
*[http://www.vickersmachinegun.org.uk/units-mgc-i.htm Units That Used The Vickers: The Machine Gun Corps (Infantry): Companies]. Includes Companies in India vickersmachinegun.org.
*[http://www.25thlondon.com/avc.htm Albert Victor Cook (1891-1973)] On 1 March 1917 Albert transferred to the Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) Territorial Force. He was posted to the 222nd Machine Gun Company, at Campbellpore in the Punjab. 25thlondon.com
*[http://www.wartimememoriesproject.com/greatwar/view.php?uid=207095 Claude John Ainslie] British Indian Army 222nd Coy. Machine Gun Corps. The Wartime Memories Project - The Great War
*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/527922.html "Kurdistan 1919: Military Operations in Mesopotamian Kurdistan"] by Harry Fecitt. Harry's Sideshows. kaiserscross.com. The troops in these operations included 207th Company, 1 Sec. 238th Company, 239th Company, all 18th Indian Machine Gun Battalion. 1 Section L.A.M. Battery.<ref>[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31813/supplement/2882 ''The London Gazette''] Publication date: 5 March 1920. Supplement date: 8 March 1920, Supplement: 31813 Page: 2882. Despatch commences [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31813/supplement/2877 page 2877].</ref>:[http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/401601.html "Mesopotamia 1920-21: The Machine Gun Corps during the Arab Insurrection"] by Harry Fecitt. Harry's Sideshows. kaiserscross.com. The book by Haldane mentioned within is available online, see below.
*[http://www.iwm.org.uk/ Imperial War Museums] Their online collection contains many items on the Machine Gun Corps in India. Try the search terms "machine gun corps india". The following interviews may be listened to online:
**1976 interview with Walter Cousins, British private served with 1/5th Battalion, East Surrey Regt in India, 1914-1916; NCO served with 222nd Coy, Machine Gun Corps in India and Afghanistan, 1916-1920.
