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	Machine Gun Corps - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		At the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 the tactical potential of machine guns was not appreciated by the British Military.
		To achieve this, the Machine Gun Corps was formed in October 1915 with Infantry, Cavalry and Motor branches, followed in 1916 by the Heavy Branch.
		The Corps was disbanded in 1922 as a cost-cutting measure.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Machine_Gun_Corps (681 words)

	Machine-Gun - LoveToKnow 1911
		The gun barrel was in reality a casing for 25 rifle barrels disposed around a common axis (the idea of obtaining sweeping effect by disposing the barrels slightly fan-wise had been tried and abandoned).
		Each gun was provided with four chambers, which were loaded with their 25 cartridges apiece by a charger, and fixed to the breech one after the other as quickly as the manipulation of the powerful retaining screw permitted.
		They therefore ostentatiously rejected the Gatling gun, taught their troops that the new weapons were in the nature of scientific toys, and secretly made up their minds to turn the whole weight of their guns on to the mitrailleuse whenever and wherever it appeared on the field, and so to overwhelm it at once.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Machine-Gun (10756 words)

	Machine Guns - www.canadiansoldiers.com
		Machine Guns had played a minor part in Canadian military history in the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, when Gatling Guns under the command of a regular US Army officer, lent their support to the battles at Cut Knife Creek and Batoche.
		Machine Gun battalions (and independent MG companies in the armoured divisions} were employed throughout the war.
		The M1919 Browning.30 calibre machine gun was widely used during the Second World War by US forces as both a vehicle mounted weapon, and as an infantry weapon in both medium and later light machine gun configuration (the former by fitting the weapon to a tripod, the latter by fitting a bipod and buttstock).
	www.canadiansoldiers.com /mediawiki-1.5.5/index.php?title=Machine_Guns (1426 words)

	First World War.com - Weapons of War - Machine Guns
		Machine guns of all armies were largely of the heavy variety and decidedly ill-suited to portability for use by rapidly advancing infantry troops.
		As the war developed machine guns were adapted for use on tanks on broken ground, particularly on the Western Front (where the majority of machine guns were deployed).
		Light machine guns were adopted too for incorporation into aircraft from 1915 onwards, for example the Vickers, particularly with the German adoption of interrupter equipment, which enabled the pilot to fire the gun through the aircraft's propeller blades.
	www.firstworldwar.com /weaponry/machineguns.htm (1049 words)

	The Machine Gun Corps in 1914-1918
		The Vickers machine gun is fired from a tripod, and is cooled by water held in a jacket against the barrel.
		The machine guns of the 2nd and 47th Division fired an indirect barrage over the heads of their advancing infantry, and behind the German trenches (in other words, this was an interdiction barrage, to stop German attempts to reinforce or re-supply their front, during the Battle of Loos, on
		Machine guns for these tasks were generally placed about 1000 yards behind the advancing infantry, and were moved up as soon as the enemy positions were captured.
	www.1914-1918.net /mgc.htm (1033 words)

	Essential Somme (articles, maps, photos more)
		Machine guns could therefore be dispersed among the constituent battalions of the regiment, or concentrated — according to tactical requirements.
		This move was a recognition of the advantages of concentrating machine guns, and of the differing capabilities of the ‘medium' machine gun (Vickers) and the light machine gun (Lewis).
		One of the examples of machine guns in defence taught, to pupils at the Machine Gun Training Centre at Grantham, was an action fought north of Arras on 28 March 1918.
	www.essentialsomme.com /articles/british_machine_gun_tactics.htm (3044 words)

	Patches of Machine Gun Corps, Service Corps & Pioneers
		The crossed guns were to be the patch of the Machine Gun Corps.
		Machine Gun Companies the letters 'MG' were embroidered directly onto the brigade headquarters colour patch, for the 14th and 15th the letter 'G' being below the 'M'.
		Corps Motor Transport was re-organised to form a headquarters (absorbed HQ 'K' Supply Column and HQ 'K' Ammunition Park) and six motor transport companies, formed from the supply column and ammunition sub-park allotted to each of the five divisions.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-badges/patches/mg.htm (2239 words)

	The Vickers Machine Gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Where ever a gun was needed, men were needed to operate it so it is sensible to have the man carry the gun.
		When the gun weas fitted with the Sangster "Emergency" mount, the front band of this mount had a leather strap that was meant to be swiveled up and down so it could be put in front of the muzzle to protect it when raised 90° from its rested position below the gun.
		Machine Gunners then put a second leather strap at the rear of the gun attached to the crosspiece.
	www.vickersmachinegun.org.uk /transport-mancarry.htm (803 words)

	Machine Gun Corps [UK]
		Units That Used the Vickers Machine Gun, by Richard Fisher.
		With the Machine Gun Corps from Grantham to Cologne.
		History and memoir of the 33rd Battalion, Machine Gun Corps and of the 19th, 98th, 100th, and 248th M.G. Companies.
	www.regiments.org /regiments/uk/inf/MGC.htm (242 words)

	First World War.com - Encyclopedia - Vickers Gun
		The Vickers Gun, closely modelled on the Maxim Gun, comprised the British Army's standard heavy machine gun at the start of the First World War, following its formal adoption in 1912.
		The gun used standard rifle 0.303-inch ammunition and weighed a little under 20kg; it was thus lighter than both the original Maxim Gun and the German Maschinengewehr 08.
		Although the predominant British machine gun in 1914 and for much of 1915 - it remained so for British imperial troops sited on far-flung battlefields, innovations in machine gun design invariably showing up first on the Western Front - it was gradually replaced from late 1915 onwards by the lighter Lewis Gun.
	www.firstworldwar.com /atoz/mgun_vickers.htm (330 words)

	Lewis .303 Light Machine Gun
		The gun was cocked by hand, and the first round produced gases which pushed a piston to the rear, thus re-cocking the gun.
		The four guns at HQ were usually used in the Anti Aircraft role, but could be used to stiffen up fire to help the soldiers on to their objectives.
		In field conditions, the gun was prone to the usual problems of mud in Europe, or sand in the deserts of Mesopotamia and Palestine.
	www.landships.freeservers.com /lewis_mg_info.htm (1336 words)

	7809701 Staff Sergeant Harold John Bazley, Royal Engineers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The different types of stoppages or malfunctions of the gun were indicated by the position of the crank handle when firing ceased, and all gunners were trained to remove the cause of a stoppage in a matter of seconds.
		Following a period of grueling training with the machine gun, Private Bazley was posted to the 172nd Company, M.G.C. on the 14th of February 1917.
		On that date he was posted to the 5th Battalion, M.G.C. This battalion was assigned to the 5th Division which at this time was serving along the River Piave in Italy with the British XI Corps.
	hometown.aol.com /reubique/7809701.htm (4482 words)

	Machine Gun Corps units, 1914-1918
		Former title 2nd Dismounted Brigade MGC, joined 74th Division 14 January 1917, and moved into 74 MG Bn 11 April 1918.
		Redesignated 100th Bn MGC on 19 August 1918, and after brief spells with 12th and 47th Divisions, joined 58th Division, and moved on to 46th, 25th and finally 66th Divisions.
		Formed by the 1/2nd County of London Yeomanry (at this time known as XX Corps Cavalry Regiment), in Egypt on 7 April 1918.
	www.1914-1918.net /mg_units.htm (4230 words)

	The 51st (Highland) Division, War Sketches by Fred. A. Farrell: Plates 1-20
		Walker followed up and cleared out two machine guns stationed in the houses on the left, and thirteen "nests" in the village of Monchaux on the right of his position, where they had been working considerable havoc amongst troops crawling down the slope to the river and holding up the whole attack.
		ON November 13, 1916, in the advance on Beaumont-Hamel from the Auchonvillers region---a shell-broken plateau---a veritable nest of machine guns had to be cleared before the deep ravine could be occupied for the attack on the hill behind Beaumont-Hamel.
		Major Davidson met the last gun of each battery on the drawbridge, placing "A" battery's gun under the command of Lieutenant Jenkins and " B " battery's gun under Major F. Jack."A" gun was placed in action close to Mont Bernenchon, and covering the footbridges across the canal at that point.
	www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/memoir/docs/51st/51st2.htm (1524 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Machine Guns Work"
		Medium machine guns such as this one are an essential element in the modern arsenal.
		The first handheld guns were essentially miniature cannons; you loaded some gunpowder, a steel ball and lit a fuse.
		Flintlock guns ignited gun powder by producing a tiny spark, while percussion caps used mercuric fulminate, an explosive compound you could ignite with a sharp blow.
	science.howstuffworks.com /machine-gun.htm (1102 words)

	Machine Gun Corps
		These were formed in February 1916 from the four battalion machine gun sections in each brigade.
		In 1917, divisional machine gun companies were formed, numbered 21 to 25, where the last digit was the same as the parent division.
		Machine gun squadrons bore the same numbers as the light horse brigades of which they were a part.
	www.unsw.adfa.edu.au /~rmallett/Machine_Gun.html (1073 words)

	Vickers Gun
		In 1912 the British Army adopted the Vickers as its standard machine gun.
		By this means the gun could continue to fire without a cloud of steam giving its position away to the enemy.
		When in reserve, it was normal routine in the machine gun section to give guns, accessories and equipment a complete overhaul.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWvickers.htm (680 words)

	Machine Gun Corps Old Comrades Association
		CALENDAR OF In the trenches of the First World War, the 'Great War', the machine gun was queen of the battlefield.
		In all the major battles - Somme, Ypres, Vimy, Arras, Verdun - it was the machine gun which could decimate whole battalions and which changed the face of warfare.
		The Old Comrades' Association was formed by Veterans of the Machine Gun Corps after WWI and still survives today.
	www.machineguncorps.co.uk (462 words)

	VICKERS-CLYNO 'Mk' III (Part 1)
		One arm of the M.G.C. was called the Motor Machine Gun Corps and it was to be equipped with motorcycle mounted machine guns.
		The machine gun and its shield were mounted to the sidecar on the usual tripod mount, thus the gun could be fired forward by the passenger or it could be removed completely for normal ground use.
		Three of these vehicles comprised a single gun unit: one carried the gun, a second was modified to carry a load of ammunition instead of a passenger, and the third was a spare.
	www.internetmodeler.com /2001/december/armor/vickers-clyno.htm (1987 words)

	Colt Machine Gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Rejected by the U.S. Army, which continued its successful use of the venerable.45 caliber rotating multi-barrel Gatling gun, several hundred Colt machine guns were purchased by the United States Navy in the same 6mm Lee caliber as its new Winchester-Lee Model 1895 straight pull action rifle.
		Roosevelt indicated that he would have preferred the guns mounted on carriages but even this type of transport would have proven difficult for use in the jungle terrain in the type of offensive operations carried out in that campaign.
		However, the Colt did usher in the age of the machine gun in United States service (although the US Army never formally adopted the Colt it recognized the value of the machine gun) and pointed to a century in which the machine gun would quickly become a dominant arm in warfare.
	www.spanamwar.com /Coltmachinegun.htm (1192 words)

	HELLFIRE CORNER - Machine Gun Corps
		The Machine gun was 'Queen of the Battlefields' in WW1 and the Corps was formed to utilise this weapon to best advantage.
		In the year 2000, it was the 85th Anniversary of the formation of the MGC and we celebrated this in many ways, to try to gain the recognition the MGC deserves, but to date, does not seem to get.
		As a way of ensuring that the men of the MGC are not forgotten, we are photographing each individual headstone and memorial.
	www.hellfire-corner.demon.co.uk /mgc.htm (1687 words)

	William Telford in the Machine Gun Corps
		was formed at Houtkerque on 16 February 1916 from the machine gun sections of the battalions serving in the brigade.
		The 14th Battalion Machine Gun Corps was disbanded on 11 April 1918 and personnel were returned to a Base Depot at Abbeville.
		This would indicate he was serving with the 51st Battalion Machine Gun Corps when he earned the award and that the deed was performed in 1918, rather than earlier.
	www.the-telfords.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /famtree/mgcwill.htm (1258 words)

	Handbuilt 1:4 Vickers .303 H.M.G. 1917 - 1961 with Machine Gun Corps Cap Badge (HB/011) \| Antics Online
		A collection of guns and artillery units from the Millimete gun of c.
		Incorporated on the display base is Sgt. Instructor Albert Dollin's cap badge from the Machine Gun Corps, which was only in existence as a corps for 3 years.
		Dollin, the model maker's father, transferred to the remainder of the Machine Gun Corp in India, training Indian Army personnel in the use of the Vickers guns.
	www.anticsonline.co.uk /1268_1_1288820.html (304 words)

	With the Tanks
		We came from the infantry, from the cavalry, from the artillery, from the Machine-Gun Corps, the Motor Machine guns, the Flying Corps, the Army Service Corps, and even from the navy.
		We came at first in the varied uniforms of our various regiments, and a motley crowd we were - the British infantry man in his turned-over trousers, the Scotsman in his kilt, the artillery boys in riding breeches and jaunty bandoliers, and he of the senior service in regulation navy blue.
		They differ only in armament, for the male tank carries two large cannons and five machine guns, whereas the female variety is armed with seven machine-guns, reversing the poet's assertion that the female of the species is deadlier than the male.
	www.greatwardifferent.com /Great_War/Tanks/With_the_Tanks.htm (4971 words)

	The Canadian Armoured Corps in WW2
		The Canadian Armoured Corps was virtually non-existent in 1939, yet by 1945 was fielding two full armoured divisions (the 4th and 5th), in addition to an independent armoured brigade and numerous smaller units.
		The Canadian Armoured Corps was largely unaffected by the general mobilization in the fall of 1939.
		The Canadian Armoured Corps was officially formed in August 1940, with the senior units the Ontario Regiment, the Three Rivers Regiment, the 1st Hussars and the Fort Garry Horse.
	www.mapleleafup.org /vehicles/cac (863 words)

	The 51st (Highland) Division, War Sketches by Fred. A. Farrell: Plates 21-40
		Meanwhile Harcourt, armed with a rifle and bayonet, and another bayonet for luck, one machine gun and belt fillers, was holding the German attack.
		The road had subsequently to be cleared to ground level to allow heavy guns and ammunition columns, lorries, etc., to pass; and the work went on day and night, with many interruptions owing to heavy traffic, shelling, etc., till the road was cleared for all traffic.
		He subsequently carried on with one gun, sufficiently reducing the machinegun fire in and in front of Lieu St. Amand to allow the infantry to continue their advance.
	www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/memoir/docs/51st/51st3.htm (1317 words)

	The Machinegun Corps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is hoped that this will become a dedication to the 170,500 officers and men who served in the M.G.C with 62,049 becoming casualties including 12,498 being killed.
		Records for the Machine Gun Corps are very sparse many of them having been lost over the years.
		I am aware that there are others who have a great interest in the M.G.C. and who have already done a great deal of work and research on this subject.
	www.machineguncorps.net (161 words)

	E-mail Article: Book review: With a Machine Gun to Cambrai by George Coppard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Article URL: http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/wargaming/53969 Title: Book review: With a Machine Gun to Cambrai by George Coppard Description: George Coppard enlisted in Kitchener's Army in 1914 after lying about his age.
		Serving with the Machine Gun Corps, he fought in the battles of Loos, Somme, Arras and Cambrai.
		This is a genuine and highly evocative tale of life on the Western front, all the more significant because it is told by one from the Ranks rather than the officer's mess.
	www.suite101.com /article/send.cfm/wargaming/53969 (145 words)

	The Canadian Emma Gees
		A History of the Canadian Machine Gun Corps
		Despite an extensive search, we are unaware of any exisiting copyright on the original work.
		Grafton, Lt.-Col. C.S. The Canadian "Emma Gees" : A History of the Canadian Machine Gun Corps, published by The Canadian Machine Gun Corps Association, transcribed by Dwight G. Mercer, and presented on Brett Payne's 6th Brigade Canadian Machine Gun Company Web Pages
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~brett/cmgc/emmagees/mgcov.html (149 words)

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