The Machine Gun Corps was formed in October 1915 in response to the need for more effective use of machine guns on the Western Front. At the time, the train of thought by the upper echelon of the British Army was that one battery of machine guns per corps was sufficient, but this had diminished the potential for the new weapon.

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Commonwealth War Graves

Bowditch, Private Edgar (d1919, aged 32, illness)

Charles, Private David (d1920, aged 27, illness)

Coward, Private Percy (d1918, aged 21, wounded in action)

Creasey, Private Robert (d1919, aged 23, cause of death unknown)

Creed, Private Victor (d1918, aged 21, died of wounds)

Duke, Private Charles (d1919, aged 41, cause of death unknown)

Green, Private Ernest (d1918, aged 37, illness)

Hartnell, Private Walter (d1917, aged 28, cause of death unknown)

Hector, Private Ernest (d1920, aged 45, cause of death unknown)

Labdon, Private Hubert (d1919, aged 23, illness)

Lethaby, Private John (d1920, aged 22, illness)

Mauger, Private Philip (d1919, aged 26, cause unknown)

Millard, Private Walter (d1918, aged 31, illness)

Moxham, Private Gilbert (d1918, aged 26, illness)

Packer, Private Frances (d1917, aged 33, wounded in action)

Palmer, Private Arthur (d1918, aged 30, illness)

Pavey, Private Roland (d1920, aged 29, illness)

Pointing, Private Ernest (d1917, aged 21, illness)

Powell, Private Sidney (d1916, aged 24, illness)

Selway, Private Arthur (d1918, aged 19, cause of death unknown)

Small, Private William (d1919, aged 22, illness)

Taylor, Private Arthur (d1919, aged 27, cause of death unknown)

Tucker, Private Charles (d1919, aged 21, illness)

Tyler, Second Lieutenant William (d1918, aged 30, cause unknown)

Yard, Private Henry (d1919, aged 34, illness)