13th Brigade Machine Gun Company

A Machine Gun Company was attached to each Infantry Brigade and their subsequent Division.

Brigade attached to:	13th Brigade
Division attached to:	5th Division
Formed from the Machine Gun Sections of:	2nd Bn. The King’s Own Scottish Borderers 2nd Bn. The Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment 1st Bn. The Royal West Kents 9th Bn. The London Regiment

The 13th Bde. M.G. Coy. was formed on the 24 December 1915 from the Machine Gun Sections of the listed infantry battalions. At this time, the 2nd Bn King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry was also part of the 13th Brigade; however, the MG Section of this unit was likely formed into the 97th Brigade Machine Gun Company.

As a unit of the 5th Division, it will have taken part in the following battles and engagements.

1916
BATTLES OF THE SOMME
20 to 25 July	Attacks on High Woods [XV. Corps, Fourth Army].
03 to 06 September	Battle of Guillemont [XIV. Corps, Fourth Army].
18 to 22 September	Battle of Flers-Courcelette [XIV. Corps, Fourth Army].
25 and 26 September	Battle of Morval [XIV. Corps, Fourth Army].
1917
BATTLES OF ARRAS
09 to 14 April	Battle of Vimy Ridge [Cdn. Corps, First Army].
23 April	Attack on la Coulotte [Cdn. Corps, First Army].
03 and 04 May	Third Battle of the Scarpe [Cdn. Corps, First Army].
28 June	Capture of Oppy Wood [XIII. Corps, First Army].
BATTLES OF YPRES
01 to 03 October	Battle of Polygon Wood [X. Corps, Second Army].
04 October	Battle of Broodseinde [X. Corps, Second Army].
09 October	Battle of Poelcappelle [X. Corps, Second Army].
26 October to 10 November	Second Battle of Passchendaele [X. Corps, Second Army].

On the 23rd of November the division was warned that it would be moved to Italy. Entrainment began on the 27th November, and concentration was completed by the 20th December to the east of the R. Brenta and not far from Padua. The division formed part of the XI. Corps.