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*[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 . 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.
**[https://archive.org/stream/motorcycle20lond_/motorcycle20lond#page/n393/mode/1up "“The Momagu” A Service Journal of a Battery of the MMGS in India"] ''The Motor Cycle'' Volume 20, March 28th 1918, page 310.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951d00850875e?urlappend=%3Bseq=214 "Report of Captain J A S Ewing 19th Lancers on operations of Mobile Column in Sialkot area during the Punjab Disturbances"] Includes Motor Machine Gun Battery under Major Maloney, page 200 ''Evidence taken before the Disorders Inquiry Committee: Volume V: Gujranwala, Gujrat, Lyallpur and Punjab Provincial''. 1920. HathiTrust Digital Library
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070503162055/http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/resources/resource%20pages/Mesopotamia/insurrection_mesopotamia.html ''The Insurrection in Mesopotamia 1920''] by Lieutenant General Sir Aylmer L. Haldane 1922 (links to a series of pdfs, most of which contain the text ”on its side”, so may be difficult to read.) Archive.org. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006041251 HathiTrust Digital Library], accessible in North America and limited other areas only. This book is one of the sources used in the article by Harry Fecitt, see above.
*[https://archive.org/details/frenchenglishdic00malo '' French-English Dictionary of Machine Gun Terms''] by Major H J Maloney, 1st Lt Frank Short, 1st Lt. H Morton [USA Army] 1918 Archive.org
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