29,551
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→Historical books online
*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://archivewww.gutenberg.org/detailsebooks/throughpalestine17109gut 17109 ''Through Palestine with the 20th Machine Gun Squadron''] 1920 Project Gutenberg at Archive.org, or from . [httphttps://www.gutenbergarchive.org/ebooksdetails/17109 throughpalestine17109gut Images only from the book] Project Gutenbergat 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
