87th Brigade Machine Gun Company

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

Brigade attached to:	87th Brigade
Division attached to:	29th Division
Formed from the Machine Gun Sections of:	2nd Bn. South Wales Borderers 1st Bn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers 1st Bn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 1st Bn. Border Regiment

The 87th M.G. Coy. was formed on the 16 February 1916, at Suez. It is likely to have been formed from the Machine Gun Sections of the listed infantry battalions.

As a unit of the 29th Infantry Division, it will have taken part in the following battles and engagements.

1916

After the Evacuation of Helles, the 29th Division moved to Egypt and was concentrated at Suez. On 25th February orders were received for the early move of the division to France. Embarking in March, the division disembarked at Marseille, and between 15-29 March it effected its concentration on the Somme, east of Pont Remy. For the rest of the Great War the 29th Division served on the Western Front in France and Belgium.

THE BATTLES OF THE SOMME
01 July	Battle of Albert [VIII. Corps, Fourth Army].
10 to 18 October	Battle of the Transloy Ridges (88th Bde. with 12th Div.) [XV. Corps, Fourth Army].
1917
27 January	Le Transloy (87th Bde.) [XIV. Corps, Fourth Army].
28 February	Saillisel (86th Bde.) [XIV. Corps, Fourth Army].
THE BATTLES OF ARRAS
12 to 14 April	First Battle of the Scarpe [VI. Corps, Third Army].
23 and 24 April	Second Battle of the Scarpe [VI. Corps, Third Army].
03 and 04 May	Third Battle of the Scarpe [VI. Corps, Third Army].
THE BATTLES OF YPRES
16 to 18 April	Battle of Langemarck [XIV. Corps, Fifth Army].
04 October	Battle of Broodseinde [XIV. Corps, Fifth Army].
09 October	Battle of Poelcappelle [XIV. Corps, Fifth Army].
BATTLE OF CAMBRAI
20 and 21 November	The Tank Attack [III. Corps, Third Army].
30 November to 03 December	German Counter-Attacks [III. Corps, Third Army].