page_title: Motor Machine Gun Service
section_title: Dissolution and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Motor Machine Gun Service / Dissolution and legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: The British Army on the Western Front, 1914-1918 Motor machine guns - gunners feeding a new ammunition belt into a gun. Dieval, 22 June 1918.
context_page_description: The Motor Machine Gun Service was a unit of the British Army in the First World War, consisting of batteries of motorcycle/sidecar combinations carrying Vickers machine guns. It was formed in 1914 and incorporated into the Machine Gun Corps in October 1915 as the Machine Gun Corps.
context_section_description: On the creation of the Machine Gun Corps in October 1915, the MMGS was incorporated into it as the Machine Gun Corps (Motors) (MGC(M)). Most MGC(M) batteries on the Western Front were disbanded in the course of 1916. Nevertheless, the surviving mobile batteries eventually came into their own during the advances of 1918, as well as in other theatres of the war, notably Palestine, Mesopotamia and East Africa. From 1916, many men of the MGC(M) were transferred to the Heavy Section, MGC, which later became the Tank Corps. In 1922, the Tank Corps absorbed all remaining units of the MGC(M).
caption: Two men of the Machine Gun Corps (Motors) and their motorcycle, June 1918
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