Machine Gun Corps

A British Army regiment

Also see

• Royal Tank Corps for Armoured Motor Batteries and Armoured Motor Brigades of the Machine Gun Corps

Records

National Archives, Kew

War Diaries at the National Archives
Catalogue entries include

• WO 95/5391 1 Cavalry Brigade: 15 Squadron Machine Gun Company 1919 May - Aug.
• WO 95/5391 10 Cavalry Brigade: 24 Squadron Machine Gun Corps 1919 May – June
• WO 95/5392 Kohat-Kurram Force: Force Troops: 287 Machine Gun Company 1919 May - Aug.
• WO 95/5405 263 Company Machine Gun Corps 1919 May - Sept.
• WO 95/5405 285 Company Machine Gun Corps 1919 May – July

External Links

• Machine Gun Corps Old Comrades Association
• Listen to the 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. Imperial War Museums
• Listen to the 1977 interview with Charles Douglas Armstrong, British officer served with 7th Bn Machine Gun Corps in India, 1920- 1921; served with 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regt in India, 1926-1929; served as staff officer with Manzai Bde on North West Frontier in India, 1929-1933; served as adjutant with 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regt in India, 1933-1938. Imperial War Museums
• Great War Forum thread about the 15th Machine Gun Squadron, most likely a Cavalry Unit, with some photographs of the 1919 Afghan War . To see the photographs, you must be a logged in member of that Forum, see Mailing lists.