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A '''British Army''' regimentCorps.
== Also see==
==Regimental histories and accounts==
*''Machine Guns, their History and Tactical Employment (being also a History of the Machine Gun Corps, 1916-1922)'' by Graham Seton Hutchison; published Macmillan, London in 1938. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001778045 (with other copies also available)online, see below.
*''War Cars: British Armoured Cars in the First World War'' by David Fletcher, published by HMSO in 1987. The book contains an Annex by Charles Messenger describing the various units of Motor Machine Gun Service, Lt Armoured Batteries et al.<ref> pjwmacro. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/257034-armoured-car-units-navy-army-mgc-confused/?do=findComment&comment=2599516 Armoured Car Units, Navy, Army, MGC, confused?] ''Great War Forum'' 8 January 2018. Retrieved 5 February 2021.</ref> The book also has a lot of good photographs of armoured cars all over India and Persia in locations like Kohat. "The backgrounds are very interesting because they show forts, uniforms etc. Fletcher also describes very well and briefly the campaigns in the area from 1914 to about 1925."<ref> nickbalmer. [https://web.archive.org/web/20180904134107/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india@rootsweb.com/thread/11315532/ Re 114th Marathas] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 17 February 2001. Scroll down, now archived.</ref> Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01010668542
*''With a Machine Gun to Cambrai: the tale of a young Tommy in Kitchener's Army 1914-1918'', by George Coppard. 1969. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01002231878
*[http://www.machineguncorps.co.uk/index.html Machine Gun Corps Old Comrades Association]
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20170627135145/http://www.machineguncorps.co.uk/mgcbooks.doc Books and Journals about, or relating to, the Machine Gun Corps (Compiled by Graham Sacker)], now an archived page. A document download, which depending on your browser, you may need to locate in your downloads folder. Check whether the website has a more recent working link, (but at times in the past the website link was not working).
*[http://www.machine-gun-corps-database.co.uk The Machine Gun Corps Research Database] “Contains details of over 100,000 soldiers who served with the MGC. Continuously updated”. A research fee applies. The database includes information relating to the India General Service Medal (Afghanistan, Waziristan etc) from the medal rolls.:'''Update''' From circa July 2023 this database is also accessible (for free) through The National Archives Discovery catalogue [https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/c7db3268-a92e-4749-82a7-04137fa42141 SKR Machine Gun Corps Database Collection].
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080113060703/http://www.regiments.org:80/regiments/uk/inf/MGC.htm Machine Gun Corps] Regiments.org, now an archived website.
*[https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1982-02-31-174 Photograph: A motor cycle machine gun team, c 1919 North West Frontier], probably Miranshah, probably of one of Motor Machine Gun Battery number 19 or 22. From an album of 367 photographs compiled by W K Fraser-Tytler (later Ambassador at Kabul). NAM. 1982-02-31-174 National Army Museum
*Also see [[Western Front#Historical books online|Western Front - Historical books online]].
*Also see [[Indian Army List online]] for a listing of the Officers in India, subdivided into Cavalry, Motors and Infantry, with an indication of the Squadron, Battery, or Battalion/Company, but no additional unit information, apart from the fact that the Training Centre was at Mhow (January 1920).
*[https://archive.org/details/machinegunshutchison/page/n9/mode/2up ''Machine Guns, their History and Tactical Employment (being also a History of the Machine Gun Corps, 1916-1922)''] by Graham Seton Hutchison; published Macmillan, London in 1938. Archive.org
*The website of ''Vickers MG Collection and Research Association'' includes online [https://vickersmg.blog/manual/ Manuals], Handbooks etc., relating to mainly to machine guns and tanks, but also including other subjects, from c 1908. There is a drop down menu from "Manuals" at the top of the webpage. Some, but not all (at 2019/12/18), of these publications have been uploaded to Archive.org in a collection [https://archive.org/details/@vickers_mg_collection_research_association?&sort=date Vickers MG Collection & Research Association]. Introduced circa July 2023, there is also an item on The National Archives Discovery catalogue [https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/5a70c106-1b2b-43ab-9931-18f395d57ac5 VMG/M "Printed matter relating to the Vickers machine gun and similar subjects"] with links to the Archive.org book files.
*[https://archive.org/details/bookofmachinegun00long ''The Book of the Machine Gun''] by F.V. Longstaff and A. Hilliard Atteridge. 1917 Archive.org.
*There is a brief mention of the Machine Gun Corps in a short chapter "Royal Tank Corps", [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207847/page/n137/mode/2up page 113] in ''The Army in India and Its Evolution: Including an account of the establishment of the Royal Air Force in India'' 1924. Compiled Officially. Archive.org.
*[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://www.gutenbergarchive.org/ebooksdetails/palestine20thmachinegunsquadron/File1Palestine20thMachineGunSquadron/17109 mode/2up ''Through Palestine with the 20th Twentieth Machine Gun Squadron''] by A. O. W. Kindall 1920 GutenbergArchive.org. [https://archive.org/details/throughpalestine17109gut Images only from the book] Project Gutenberg at Archive.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).
**[https://archive.org/stream/motorcycle05lond_/motorcycle05lond#page/10/mode/1up "Motor Machine Gun Service: Vacancies for Motor Cyclists, Mechanics and Car Drivers"] to enlist in the M.M.G.S. (R. F.A). ''The Motor Cycle'', Volume 15, July 1st, 1915, page 10
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