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213:. The 4th Infantry Brigade and its associated machine gun company were disbanded in early 1918 due to manpower shortages and the remaining four machine gun companies were grouped together into a battalion in February 1918. The machine gun companies were also redesignated at this point with the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th companies becoming the
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in response to a need for more effective machine gun support. The corps initially comprised independent machine gun companies and a mounted machine gun squadron, although in 1918 the machine gun companies were brought together into a machine gun battalion. The New
Zealand Machine Gun Corps was
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Zealand Machine Gun Corps was formed. The infantry machine gun sections were detached from their battalions in March 1916 and formed into larger independent companies. Each company was equipped with sixteen
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Australian machine gun squadron, to be assigned to the 5th Light Horse Brigade, but no such unit was formed and there is no evidence that it was worn by the 2nd New Zealand Machine Gun
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in 1916, the decision was made to form a divisional level machine gun company, which joined the New
Zealand Division in February 1917. Another machine gun company was also formed in May 1917 to support the new
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was disbanded and the New
Zealand cameliers of the 15th and 16th companies were converted into the 2nd Machine Gun Squadron. The 2nd Machine Gun Squadron served with the newly formed
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companies respectively. Immediately following the end of the war the machine gun battalion took up occupation duties with the rest of the New
Zealand Division in
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831:"Colour patch: 5 Light Horse Machine Gun Squadron, AIF"
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172:New Zealand machine gunners in France, August 1918
862:Military units and formations established in 1916
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611:With the Machine Gunners in France and Palestine
292:Headquarters New Zealand Machine Gun Battalion
155:. It was formed in early 1916, following the
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127:Sinai and Palestine campaign
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608:Luxford, J. H. (1923).
523:5th Light Horse Brigade
450:5th Machine Gun Company
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387:3rd Machine Gun Company
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246:Desert Mounted Corps
211:4th Infantry Brigade
198:New Zealand Division
191:Vickers machine guns
145:administrative corps
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405:March 1916
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340:March 1919
337:March 1916
311:March 1919
151:during the
113:Engagements
98:2 Squadrons
96:5 Companies
59:New Zealand
856:Categories
595:References
527:June 1918
504:June 1916
227:Wellington
219:Canterbury
65:Allegiance
785:NZHistory
765:ignored (
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587:Squadron.
439:May 1917
274:Insignia
182:Gallipoli
42:1916-1919
31:Cap Badge
543:See also
215:Auckland
231:Cologne
200:on the
164:History
147:of the
143:was an
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286:Notes
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271:Name
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