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==Regimental Journals==*''The Machine Gun Corps Magazine''. [Nottingham], [1916]-1918. Available at the British Library, however exact holding is not stated. Imperial War Museums also hold editons from Volume 1, No 1 November 1916 to December 1918. *''The Machine Gunner'', The British Library hold issues Volume 1 No.1 September 1920 to Volume 1, No.5 February 1921. These journals are available on the subscription website database ProQuest "Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War", which is available at the British Library and elsewhere - see [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories]] for access through some libraries.
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*[[Royal Tank Corps]] for Armoured Motor Batteries and Armoured Motor Brigades of the Machine Gun Corps
==Chronology==
*'''1915'''.10.22. Formed with three branches: Cavalry, Infantry , Motor Machine Guns Service.
*'''1916'''.11.18. Heavy Branch of Motor MG Service formed.
*'''1917'''.07.27. Heavy Branch withdrawn to form Tank Corps, and Motor MG Service gradually disbanded.
*'''1918'''.03. MG companies grouped in battalions.
*'''1922'''. MG Corps disbanded.<ref>Regiments.org, see External links above.</ref>
==First World War==
===Motor Machine Gun units===
*263 Machine Gun Company. Formed in India, December 1917. There is a War Diary available for the period May-September 1919, probably for service during the [[3rd Afghan War]]
*282 Machine Gun Company. It was at Mhow, at least for the period 17 January 1919 to 5 June 1919
*283 Machine Gun Company. It appears to have been In India In 1917 1916 and was at Mhow, Christmas Day 1918
*285 Machine Gun Company. There is a War Diary available for the period May-July 1919, probably for service during the [[3rd Afghan War]]
*287 Machine Gun Company was part of the Kohat-Kurram Force May – August 1919. A War Diary is available.
India General Service Medal Rolls for the Machine Gun Corps may be found at [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/browse/C11200076?v=r WO 100/480], [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/browse/C11200081?v=r WO 100/485],
[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/browse/C11200005?v=r WO 100/492] These are stated to be for the period 1920-1935, but probably include the 1919 awards for the [[3rd Afghan War]]. There may be additional references. All may be downloaded for free. This data is also available on the pay website Ancestry.
== External 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.machineguncorps.co.uk/index.html Machine Gun Corps Old Comrades Association]
*[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.
*[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.*[http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/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
*[https://www.peoplescollection.wales/discover/query/Edwin%20Cross Edwin Cross and his photographs of India during the First World War] 31 items. Peoples Collection Wales. If URL is not permanent, use Edwin Cross in the Search. He served in the Machine Gun Corps. One of the photographs is dated "Bombay - Bangalore, Feb 26 1916". There are later mentions of 283 Machine Gun Company. The collection includes [https://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/32346 Photograph: Edwin Cross and comrades, Machine Gun Corps] with machine gun and also showing tropical helmets with flash.
*[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/304501/401601.html "Mesopotamia 1920-21:The Machine Gun Corps during the Arab Insurrection"] by Harry Fecitt. Harry's Sideshows. kaiserscross.com
*[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.
**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
===Historical books online===
*Also see [[Western Front#Historical books online|Western Front - Historical books online]].
*[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.
