Machine Gun Training Centre, British Army

Located at Belton Park, Grantham, Lincolnshire.

Machine Gun Training Centre, British Army
Years active:	–
Country:	United Kingdom
Service:	British Army
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Type:	Machine gun
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Relationship type:	Administrative
Parent unit:	Machine Gun Corps, UK
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Personal narratives

Frederick Hunt

Imperial War Museum: Documents.251 is a typescript memoir by Template:RefLives, including his service in these units:

• 1/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, UK (August 1915 to August 1916; service number 3150)
• 203rd Machine Gun Company, UK (August 1916 to January 1918; service number 67672; promoted from private to sergeant)
• Machine Gun Training Centre, UK (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, UK but this is not made clear in the catalogue description.

Official Sources

Unit war diaries

No war diaries exist for this unit. This could be because:

• units and formations were only required to keep official war diaries when operating in a theatre of war.
• war diaries were created but no longer survive.
• some unit pages on this site that represent groups of formation troops don't correspond to a unit or staff department that kept war diaries.

Other sources

• Machine Gunner Training at the Vickers Machine Gun website.