The Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars was a Cavalry Regiment that would have had an MG Section as part of its Regimental Headquarters.
As a unit of the 4th 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]. |
| 13 to 17 October | Battle of Armentieres (3rd and 4th Cav. Bdes.) [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 | |
| 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 4th Cavalry MG Squadron on 28 February 1916.
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 and Tank Regiment.
