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Machine Gun Corps
Cap badge of the Machine Gun Corps.
Active
1915–1922
Country
United Kingdom
Branch
British Army
March
Quick: The Happy Clown
Engagements
First World War
Military unit
The Machine Gun Corps (MGC) was a corps of the British Army, formed in October 1915 in response to the need for more effective use of machine guns on the Western Front in the First World War. The Heavy Branch of the MGC was the first to use tanks in combat and was subsequently turned into the Tank Corps, later called the Royal Tank Regiment. The MGC remained in existence after the war until it was disbanded in 1922.
The MachineGunCorps (MGC) was a corps of the British Army, formed in October 1915 in response to the need for more effective use of machineguns on the...
Weapons & War Machines, describes an action that took place in August 1916, during which the British 100th Company of the MachineGunCorps fired their...
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formally written as Light MachineGun, 5.56 mm, M249, is the US military's adaptation of the Belgian FN Minimi, a light machinegun manufactured by FN Herstal...
The MachineGunCorps Memorial, also known as The Boy David, is a memorial to the casualties of the MachineGunCorps in the First World War. It is located...
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machinegun, known as the Vickers Gas Operated (Vickers G.O.) or Gun, Machine, Vickers G.O. .303-inch in British service, was a rapid-firing machine gun...
Namibian Marine Corps. North Korea North Macedonia Poland: Manufactured at ZM Tarnów as NSW. Poland also developed their own machinegun based on NSV...
submachine gun, to describe its design concept as an automatic firearm with notably less firepower than a machinegun (hence the prefix "sub-"). As a machine gun...
forces to defend the front line. Later in the war, when the MachineGunCorps and the Tank Corps were added to the order of battle, they were also included...
hurriedly converted to the machinegun role. In April 1918, the regiment left XX Corps and was reformed as F Battalion, MachineGunCorps. F Battalion, MGC was...
Mitrailleuse d'Appui Général, English: General Purpose MachineGun) is a Belgian 7.62 mm general-purpose machinegun, designed in the early 1950s at Fabrique Nationale...
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