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5th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps    The 5th Machine Gun Battalion was formed in Italy on the 26th of February 1918 from the 205th Machine Gun Company and continued to serve with 5th Division. The Division was recalled to France to assist with countering the German Advance in late March 1918 On the 26th of April 1918 they absorbed the 15th, 16th and 95th Machine Gun Companies and were in action during the Battles of the Lys. On the 14th of August 1918 the 5th Division was withdrawn for two weeks rest. Then moved to The Somme where they were more or less in continuous action over the old battlegrounds until late October 1918 and saw action in the Battles of the Hindenburg Line and the Final Advance in Picardy. At the Armistice they were in the area of Le Quesnoy and moved to Belgium to the area around Namur and Wavre in December and demobilization began. 17th April 1915 5th Division Attack   24th Dec 1917 Reorganisation 21st Jan 1918 Course 5th Feb 1918 Course Ends 13th Feb 1918 Personnel 21st Feb 1918 Reorganisation 25th Mar 1918 Reorganisation 25th Mar 1918 Appointments 9th of April 1918 Orders 10th of April 1918  Relief Postponed 23rd of April 1918 Constant Shelling   25th of April 1918  Division Attacks   26th Apr 1918 Dispositions of Machine Guns   27th Apr 1918 Transport   28th of April 1918 Artillery Quieter   28th Apr 1918 Relief   3rd of May 1918 Enemy Artillery Active    4th of May 1918 Situation Quiet   10th of May 1918 Gas Shells Used    15th of May 1918 Our Heavies Busy    17th of May 1918 Active Artillery   22nd of May 1918 Enemy Active   23rd of May 1918 Quiet Night   30th of May 1918 A Relief   5th of June 1918  Brigade Relief   13th of June 1918  Brigade Relief Completed   15th of June 1918  Operation Proposed   20th of June 1918 Situation Unchanged   22nd of June 1918  Slight Activity   25th of June 1918 WO95/1510/4   29th of June 1918 Enemy Guns Active   1st of July 1918  Situation Unchanged   7th of July 1918  Gas Shelling   12th of July 1918 Back Areas Bombed   18th of July 1918  Our Guns Active   24th of July 1918  Relief Completed   28th of July 1918 Quiet    31st of July 1918 Relief Completed   9th of August 1918  Training   10th of August 1918  Training 13th of August 1918 Entraining Commenced 15th of August 1918  Training 23rd of August 1918  Division Attacks   24th of August 1918  5th Division Co-operates   25th of August 1918 Brigades Move   26th of August 1918  Enemy Retreats   27th of August 1918 Quiet   28th of August 1918   Situation Unchanged   30th of August 1918  Advance Continues   31st of August 1918  Counter-Attack   1st of September 1918  Attack Sucessful   2nd of September 1918 Strongly Defended 3rd of September 1918  Enemy Withdraws   4th of September 1918 Divisional Relief 5th of September 1918 Rest and Training 8th of September 1918  Rest and Training   13th of September 1918 On the Move   17th of September 1918 Back Areas Bombed   18th of September 1918 Attack Commences   19th of September 1918 Enemy Guns Quiet   20th of September 1918  Quiet Time   22nd of September 1918 Field Guns Active   25th of September 1918  Advance Resumed   26th of September 1918 Preparing to Attack   30th of September 1918  Divisional Relief   8th of October 1918 New Area   9th of October 1918  On the Move    10th of October 1918 On the Move   12th of October 1918 New Divisional Area 18th of October 1918  Gas Shelling    20th of October 1918    22nd of October 1918 Advance to Resume   2nd of November 1918   Warning of Advance   4th of November 1918 Attack Continued    10th of November 1918  Operations Continue   13th of November 1918 Resting 4th of December 1918 Orders Issued   11th of December 1918 Order for March 3rd of January 1919 Additional Areas Allotted 24th of January 1919 5th Signals Rejoining If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 5th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps? There are:5310 items tagged 5th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. Those known to have served with 5th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps during the Great War 1914-1918. Green Henry Alfred. Wilde James. Pte. All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of 5th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps from other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. 1st of September 2024 marks 25 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time. Want to find out more about your relative's service? 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We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. 240250 Pte. James Wilde 205th Coy. 5th Battalion My father James Wilde was called up April 1918 and joined the Border Regiment but transferred to the Machine Gun Corps. In the Borders he had done some training at Altcar Range. I was there 39 years later with the REME. After training he went to France. On their first day they walked 11 miles in the sunshine but on the second they did 26 miles because it was raining. He was 29 years old. In the trenches they were nearly always in water and sometimes slept in more than a foot of water. They had very little food and once their daily amount was half a loaf and a jar of jam between 6 of them. They broke the bread up added water and the jam and boiled it up like soup. It was too sweet to eat. Some time in the middle of Oct. He was working his way through the tranches, he fell back and trying to rise he thought he had sat in water and then knew it was his blood. A slinter shell had exploded near him and removed 4 inches of his femur. In Grantham Hospital he was 11 months on his back with pulleys and sand bags waiting for his bones to grow together. They needed money to spend so 200 of them lined up for 10s. My father wanted to read what they were signing for but the quarter master would not give them time and later they all found they had signed for a pound. Most of the men also found out that they had all been charged for loosing their uniforms in France. He did not get out of the army until 1920. He had constant medicals on his leg which was as thick as my wrist in his thigh and it would not be any different so he refused to take further medicals so they reduced his pension from 100% to 60%. He was qualified unfit for work. At 65 he applied for the OAP. He was told because he had no stamps on his card he did not qualify. He died in Dec. 1963 James Colin Wilde Add to this record. 234835 Henry Alfred Green Attchd 5th Btn. Machine Gun Corps King's Royal Rifle Corps Henry Green is my great grandfather. On 27th June 1917 he was called up to join the King's Royal Rifles. However, because he was over 30 years old (born in 1886), he was attached to the Machine Gun Corps, 5th Battalion. He was discharged from the MGC on 20th August 1919, but Henry remained as battalion cook until 18th November 1919. He recieved his official Army discharge on 20th December 1919. Henry died on 30th March 1960 and is buried in Eltham Cemetery in London. Michelle Bowen Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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