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Want to know more about 95th Company, Machine Gun Corps? There are:5352 items tagged 95th 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 95th Company, Machine Gun Corps during the Great War 1914-1918. Bond Milton. Pte (d.27 July 1916) Evans Levi Henry. Sgt (d.11th Nov 1917) Hilton Ernest. Pte. Lockley John Bright. CQMS (d.5th April 1918) 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 95th Company, 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. 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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. 232012 Pte. Ernest Hilton 95th Coy. Machine Gun Corps Ernest Hilton was transferred into the Machine Gun Corps from the 5th Battalion, City of London Rifles, a Territorial regiment. He enlisted into the 5th battalion on 1st March 1915, agreeing at the same time to serve outside the United Kingdom. He transferred into the Machine Gun Corps on 26th July 1916, being posted to the BEF in France on 13th August that year. He joined the 95th Company, MGC on 21st August 1916 and remained in France until 11th October 1916, during which period the company saw action on the Somme as part of 95th Brigade, 5th Division. After a period at home, he was posted to the 224th Company MGC, BEF, France on 25th April 1917, remaining out there until 17th September 1917, during which period the company saw action around Arras as part of the 63rd (Naval) Division. He spent the remainder of the war in Britain, being posted to 15th Company, MGC on 14th March 1918 and posted Category Bii on 29th August 1918. A short attachment to 421 Agricultural Company, Labour Corps, Warrington then followed (26th September to 27th November 1918) before he was posted to 6th Reserve Battalion, MGC on 22nd February 1919. After transfer to the Army Z Reserve on 5th April 1919, he was discharged from the MGC on 20th April 1921, under paragraph 392 (xvia) of King's Regulations "being surplus to military requirements having suffered impairment since entry into the service." He was later awarded a pension, backdated to 5th April 1919, for Neurasthenia (a common diagnosis for "shell shock"), attributable to his war service, with the "degree of disablement" being given as 50%. He was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal. Anthony Jordan Add to this record. 209115 CQMS John Bright "Bright" Lockley 95th Machine Gun Company (d.5th April 1918) John Bright Lockley enlisted in the Manchester Regiment in 1898. Private 5421, 2nd Battalion. He served in the Boer War and finished his 12 years of service in 1910. He volunteered for service in August 1914, enlisting in the Manchester Regiment. Private 2771, 4th Battalion. He did a musketry course on machine guns and was tranferred to the 2nd Battalion and onto France. The Machine Gun Company of the 2nd Battalion the Manchester Regiment became the 95th Machine Gun Company in the 95th Infantry Brigade where he served as Company Quarter Master Sergeant 7733. Chris Lockley Add to this record. 2112 Sgt Levi Henry Evans 95th Coy Machine Gun Corps (d.11th Nov 1917) Evans, Levi, Henry. Serjeant, 30842, Killed in action on 11th November 1917. Aged 39 years. Buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, in grave XXII. EE. 12. The 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers records show that Sgt Evans was previously in the 19th Btn with service number 19/1221. killed in action whilst serving on Attachment to the Machine Gun Corps, his new service number suggests that he had transferred. Husband of Ethel Evans, of 53, Regent St, Gateshead. From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour. Dave Willis Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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