Corporal Oliver James Grice Cooper 46313, 3rd Battalion, Machine Gun ...
...46313 Corporal Oliver Cooper was killed in action on 28th March 1918 during the German Spring Offensive and was buried in Bellacourt Military Cemetery (Plot 1.N.6). He was awarded the British War and Victory Medals....
https://www.cwgc.org/stories/stories/corporal-oliver-james-grice-cooper-46313-3rd-battalion-machine-gun-corps-infantry/
Machine Gun Corps - National Army Museum
...That month, a Machine Gun School was set up at Wisques in northern France and a Motor Machine Gun Service (MMGS) of motorcycle-mounted machine guns was established within the Royal Artillery....
https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/machine-gun-corps
Companies of the Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
...Listing and brief histories of each unit of the British Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) in the First World War...
https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/companies-of-the-machine-gun-corps-infantry/
Machine Gun Corps in the Great War - The Wartime Memories Project
...Drafted into the newly-formed Machine Gun Corps, he is sent to fight in places whose names will forever be associated with mud and blood and sacrifice: Ypres, the Somme, and Passchendaele....
https://wartimememoriesproject.com/greatwar/allied/MGC.php
Machine Gun Corps - Wikipedia
...In February and March 1918, the four companies in each division were formed into a Machine Gun Battalion. The Infantry Branch was dependent on horse drawn transport....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Gun_Corps
3rd Battalion Machine Gun Corps | Great War Stories
...Pte George William Draper, 82855, 3rd Battalion Machine Gun Corps, was killed in action in France on March 28th, 1918. He was aged 35 and married with one child....
https://www.worldwar1luton.com/regiment/3rd-battalion-machine-gun-corps
Machine Gun Corps - Men on the Gates
...The corps was disbanded almost as soon as the war ended. It has been suggested that the rapid disbandment of the corps was because the MGC was not popular among the regular army. It was also seen by some more reactionary army staff as ?un British? and just a necessary requirement of the war....
https://menonthegates.org.uk/maf_army/machine-gun-corps/
Machine Gun Corps (MGC) - Kingston upon Hull War Memorial 1914 - 1918
...The Cavalry Branch consisted of Machine Gun Squadrons, one per cavalry brigade. The Motor Branch, after absorbing the MMGS, formed several types of units: motor cycle batteries, light armoured motor batteries (LAMB) and light car patrols....
https://ww1hull.com/directory-newtest/categories/machine-gun-corps/
The First Battles of the Somme, 1918 - The Long, Long Trail
...Their infantry attack would be preceded by an intense barrage concentrated not on the British infantry holding the forward posts, but on the artillery and machine-gun positions, headquarters, telephone exchanges, railways and other important centres of communications....
https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/battles/battles-of-the-western-front-in-france-and-flanders/the-first-battles-of-the-somme-1918/
No. 14 Battalion, Machine Gun Corps - The Vickers Machine Gun
...A Machine Gun Battalion of the Machine Gun Corps was attached to each Infantry Division and was formed of four MG Companies. The 14th Bn, MGC was formed in March 1918....
https://vickersmg.blog/in-use/british-service/the-british-army/machine-gun-corps/machine-gun-corps-infantry/no-14-battalion-machine-gun-corps/