The 2nd Dragoons was a Cavalry Regiment that would have had an MG Section as part of its Regimental Headquarters.
The Great War
As a unit of the 5th Cavalry Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, it will have taken part in the following battles and engagements.
| 1914 | |
| 12 to 15 September | BATTLE OF THE AISNE |
| 12 October to 02 November | Battle of Messine [Cav. Corps]. |
| BATTLES OF YPRES | |
| 30 and 31 October | Battle of Gheluvelt (3rd Cav. Bde. and part of 4th and 5th Cav. Bdes.) [I. Corps]. |
| 1915 | |
| 10 to 12 March | Battle of Neuve Chappelle (5th Cav. Bde.) [In Reserve to First Army]. |
| BATTLES OF YPRES | |
| 26 April to 03 May | Battle of St. Julien [Plumer’s Force, Second Army]. |
| 24 and 25 May | Battle of Bellewaarde Ridge [V. Corps, Second Army]. |
The MG Section was brigaded into the 5th Cavalry MG Squadron on 26 February 1916.
The Inter-War Period
In 1922, the Machine Gun Corps was disbanded and the guns returned to the Cavalry Regiment as a Machine Gun Platoon and then formed as a Machine Gun Company in the early 1930s.
This remained until the formation of Divisional Machine Gun Battalions in 1936 where guns were brigaded once again. As Cavalry regiments were largely mechanised, their use would have been as per the Royal Armoured Corps.
