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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 also include the 1919 awards for the [[3rd Afghan War]]. See [[Medal Rolls]] for more details of the subdivisions of these records. There may be additional references. All may be downloaded for free. This data is also available on the pay website Ancestry.
==Regimental histories==
*''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.
*''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. [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/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 9 January 2018.</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> India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2001-02/0982443686 post] February 2001 by Nick Balmer</ref>
==Regimental Journals==
