2nd Guards Brigade Machine Gun Company

The 2nd Gds Bde MG Coy was formed between 01 September and 19 September, 1915.

Brigade attached to: 2nd Guards Brigade
Division attached to: Guards Division
Formed from the: Machine Gun Section of 3rd Bn. The Grenadier Guards
Machine Gun Section of 1st Bn. The Coldstream Guards
Machine Gun Section of 1st Bn. The Scots Guards
Machine Gun Section of 2nd Bn. The Irish Guards

The 2nd Gds Bde MG Coy was amalgamated with the 1st, 3rd, and 4th to form the 4th Bn, MG Guards on the 01 March 1918. On 10 May 1918, by authority of Royal Warrant, the Guards Machine Gun Regiment was formed and the designation of the 4th Bn became the 4th Bn, Guards MG Regt.

As a unit of the Guards Division, it will have taken part in the following battles and engagements.

1915
26 September to 08 October Battle of Loos [XI. Corps, First Army].
16 to 19 October Hohenzollern Redoubt [XI. Corps, First Army].
1916
BATTLES OF THE SOMME
15 to 16 September Battle of Flers-Courcellete [XIV. Corps, Fourth Army].
20 to 22 September
25 to 28 September Battle of Morval [XIV. Corps, Fourth Army].
25 September Capture of Lesboeufs.
1917
14 to 24 March German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line [XIV. Corps, Fourth Army].
BATTLES OF YPRES
31 July to 02 August Battle of Pilckem Ridge [XIV. Corps, Fifth Army].
09 October Battle of Poelcappelle [XIV. Corps, Fifth Army].
12 October First Battle of Passchendaele [XIV. Corps, Fifth Army].
BATTLE OF CAMBRAI
24 to 28 November Capture of Bourlon Wood [IV. Corps, Third Army].
30 November to 03 December German Counter-Attacks [III. Corps, Third Army].
30 November Recapture of Gouzeaucourt.

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