View source for Machine Gun Training Centre, British Army

Located at Belton Park, Grantham, Lincolnshire.

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== Personal narratives ==
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=== Frederick Hunt ===

[http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030000537 Imperial War Museum: Documents.251] is a typescript memoir by [https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/2566647 Frederick Hunt], including his service in these units:

* [[1/5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, British Army]] (August 1915 to August 1916; service number 3150)
* [[203rd Machine Gun Company, British Army]] (August 1916 to January 1918; service number 67672; promoted from private to sergeant)
* [[Machine Gun Training Centre, British Army]] (instructor from January 1918 to end of war)

He also spent time in several other training camps and hospitals in the UK. He enlisted in November 1914 and may have spent time training with [[2/5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, British Army]] but this is not made clear in the catalogue description.

=== Cuthbert Lucas ===

[[Wikipedia:Cuthbert Lucas|Cuthbert Henry Tindall Lucas]] served as a general in command of the following units:

* [[87th Infantry Brigade, British Army]] (1915-1917, including Gallipoli and the Somme)
* [[Machine Gun Training Centre, British Army]] (1918)
* [[4th Division, British Army]] (October 1918)

His diaries and letters have been transcribed and blogged by Steve Warburton at [http://gallipolifirstandlast.blogspot.co.uk/ Gallipoli: First In Last Out] and [http://somme95.blogspot.co.uk/ From the Frontline: Somme 1916].

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== Official Sources ==

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== Other sources ==
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* [http://www.vickersmachinegun.org.uk/training-mgtc.htm Machine Gunner Training] at the Vickers Machine Gun website.

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