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49th Company, Machine Gun Corps    The 49th Machine Gun Company joined 16th (Irish) Division on the 29th of April 1916 they were in action on the Somme during the The Battle of Guillemont in which the Division captured the village and The Battle of Ginchy. In 1917 they fought at the The Battle of Messines and The Battle of Langemark, during the Third Battles of Ypres. In 1918 they were in action on the Somme 1918 suffering very heavy casualties. On the 18th of June 1918 the Division returned England and was reconstituted loosing almost all of its remaining Irish units at this point. The reformed Division returned to France on the 1st of August 1918 and fought in The Final Advance in Artois. They joined with the other Machine Gun Companies of the Division to form 16th MG Battalion on the 9th of March 1918. 20th Apr 1916 Reliefs 24th Apr 1916 Reliefs   27th Apr 1916 Gas   29th Apr 1916 Reliefs 17th May 1916 Reliefs   4th Sep 1916 Orders   5th Sep 1916 Reliefs   6th Sep 1916 Consolidation   7th Sep 1916 Line Consolidated   9th Sep 1916 In Action   9th Sep 1916 Bombardment   1st May 1917 Reliefs   5th May 1917 Reliefs   7th May 1917 Bombardment   9th May 1917 Bombardment   10th May 1917 Reliefs   14th May 1917 Reliefs   2nd June 1917 Reliefs   3rd June 1917 Artillery in Action   3rd Jun 1917 Transfers 4th June 1917 Reliefs   5th June 1917 Trench Raid   6th June 1917 Reliefs   7th June 1917 In Action 8th June 1917 At Rest   9th June 1917 Into Camp   14th Nov 1917 Machine Guns   15th Nov 1917 Quiet   16th Nov 1917 Patrols   20th Nov 1917 Artillery In Action   21st Nov 1917 Shelling   23rd Nov 1917 Shelling   25th Nov 1917 Reliefs   11th Dec 1917 Artillery Active 12th Dec 1917 Relief Complete 24th Dec 1917 Reorganisation 21st Jan 1918 Course 5th Feb 1918 Course Ends 13th Feb 1918 Personnel 21st Feb 1918 Reorganisation If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 49th Company, Machine Gun Corps? There are:5270 items tagged 49th Company, 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 49th Company, Machine Gun Corps during the Great War 1914-1918. Cardwell John. Pte. (d.25th April 1918) Jones MC. David Tudor. Lt/Capt. Mccarthy Laurence. Pte. (d.16th October 1918) Millett William H.. Cpl. (d.29th Nov 1917) 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 49th Company, Machine Gun Corps from other sources. 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If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation. Announcements 19th Nov 2024     Please note we currently have a massive backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 264989 your submission is still in the queue, please do not resubmit. Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to the Great War. 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David served with this MGC battalion until 1919 when it was finally disbanded at Douai. Between the wars (and after WW2) he worked for Courtaulds in Flint. In WW2 he was recalled and commissioned into the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. David served on UK defences and then to RAF for work guarding airfields in South Wales and as draft conducting officer at sea. He died in 1961 in Flint. Peter Duckers Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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