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Pte. William Henry "Shrimp" Aughton

British Army Machine Gun Corps

from:Birkdale, Southport, Lancashire

William with his Machine Gun Company in Mesopotamia

William Aughton joined the MGC at Belton Park in July 1916. He saw his 21st birthday there in August. After training, he was shipped overseas to Mesopotamia and marched from Basra through Baghdad and on to Mosul in the north. In 1918, he was retained rather than demobbed. His MGC unit was sent to India. He was based at Mhow and he saw service in the Khyber Pass and in Amritsar. In 1919, he briefly stopped at Marseilles before finally returning to the UK and being demobbed in October 1919.

William Aughton at Mhow barracks, India 1918 (middle, back row)



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