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103rd Company, Machine Gun Corps    103rd Machine Gun Company, Machine Gun Corps joined 103rd Brigade 34th Division on the 27th of April 1916. They were in action during the Battles of the Somme, including the capture of Scots and Sausage Redoubts, The Battles of Bazentin Ridge and Pozieres Ridge. 103rd Brigade and the Divisional Pioneers also saw action in The Battle of Flers-Courcelette. In 1917 they fought in the The First and Second Battles of the Scarpe and the The Battle of Arleux during the Arras Offensive. In August they were involved in the fighting at Hargicourt and in October they took part in The Third Battles of Ypres at the Broenbeek. On the 26th of February 1918 they joined with the other machine gun companies of 34th Division and became 34th Battalion MGC. 28th June Letters Home  The raider did not get much rest for on the 27th and 28th the Battalions of 34th Division began to move forward. This in preparation for the opening of the attack. For the previous four days the British Artillery had been bombarding the German trenches. Every man in the Brigade was aware that the opening of the offensive was very close. Before setting off for the front line men wrote what could be their last letters home. However the date and time of attack was to be delayed by forty eight hours. Heavy summer rain had fallen on the 26th and 27th there was a great possibility of flooding. On the 28th June the decision was taken to postpone the attack. The Divisional and Brigade staff Officers had the job of halting and turning around those battalions on their way to the front line. 12th Sep 1916 Orders 21st Sep 1916 Quiet 22nd Sep 1916 Arrivals   23rd Sep 1916 Orders   24th Sep 1916 Trench Mortars   25th Sep 1916 Shelling   26th Sep 1916 Some Shelling   27th Sep 1916 Trench Mortars   28th Sep 1916 Training & Reliefs   29th Sep 1916 Wire Cutting   30th Sep 1916 Trench Raid   1st Oct 1916 Quiet 2nd Oct 1916 Quiet 3rd Oct 1916 Shelling   4th Oct 1916 Orders   5th Oct 1916 Wire Cut   6th Oct 1916 Rounds Fired   7th Oct 1916 Trench Raid   8th Oct 1916 Artillery Active   9th Oct 1916 Quiet 10th Oct 1916 Quiet 11th Oct 1916 Course 12th Oct 1916 Trench Raids   14th Oct 1916 Reliefs 15th Oct 1916 Conference 16th Oct 1916 Courses 19th Oct 1916 Orders Issued 20th Oct 1916 Trench Raids 21st Oct 1916 Enemy Aircraft 22nd Oct 1916 Artillery Active   23rd Oct 1916 Artillery Active   24th Oct 1916 Experiment 25th Oct 1916 Artillery Active 26th Oct 1916 Wire Cutting 27th Oct 1916 Artillery Active 28th Oct 1916 Artillery in Action 29th Oct 1916 Heavy Shelling   30th Oct 1916 Artillery Active   31st Oct 1916 Warning   24th Dec 1917 Reorganisation 6th of January 1918  Reliefs Complete   8th of January 1918 Heavy Snow 17th January 1918 Machine Guns Active 18th January 1918 Artillery Bombardment 21st of January 1918 A Surrender   21st Jan 1918 Course 29th of January 1918 Divisional HQ Moves   31st of January 1918 Training   3rd of February 1918  Weather Fine   5th Feb 1918 Course Ends 13th Feb 1918 Personnel 14th of February 1918 Training 21st Feb 1918 Reorganisation 26th Feb 1918 Reorganisation   27th of February 1918 On the March   28th of February 1918 On the Move   21st Mar 1918 34th Division over run  On 21st March 1918, the great German spring offensive overran the positions of 34th Division at Croisilles on the River Sensee, causing many losses. If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 103rd Company, Machine Gun Corps? There are:5288 items tagged 103rd 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 103rd Company, Machine Gun Corps during the Great War 1914-1918. Hartley Ernest Henry. Pte. (d.10th Apr 1917) Rickard Reginald. Pte. (d.1st July 1916) Starkey Edwin. Pte. (d.1st Jul 1916) Surman Jesse Charles. Pte. (d.1st Jul 1916) 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 103rd Company, Machine Gun Corps from other sources. 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He is my Great Great Uncle, he is buried amongst his fellow men at Ovillers Military Cemetery, and he is remembered with affection and honour. For our today, he gave his tomorrow. Thanks Uncle Ted, and hope to meet you one day. Julie Baldwin-Smith Add to this record. 238730 Pte. Reginald Rickard 103rd Coy. Machine Gun Corps (d.1st July 1916) Reginald Rickard served with the Devonshire Regiment, number 20551 then transferred to 103rd Coy Machine Gun Corps, new number 13502. He was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme Reginald has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the missing. He was aged 26 when he died and was the son of Rhoda Rickard of 7 Pym Street, Morice Town, Plymouth and the late John Rickard. Mark Collins Add to this record. 210718 Pte. Ernest Henry Hartley 103 Coy. Machine Gun Corps (d.10th Apr 1917) It has taken me ages to find out anything about Ernest Hartley, after much research, I have now found him. He was born in Tadcaster, Yorkshire in 1890. His Dad, Henry Hartley, born 1856. His Mother, Emma Bulmer, in 1864. He was formerly 37901 West Yorkshire Reg and died from his wounds in France and Flanders on the 10th of April 1917. I am now trying to find if he was trained at Belton House in Grantham, where the Machine corps were trained to use these guns to overcome the Germans, who had been using these weapons for year and were killing thousands of our soldiers. Michael J Highfield Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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