Cap Badge - 3rd Canadian Machine Gun Company, 1st Division In the 1st Division, CEF, the Canadian Machine Gun Corps consisted of: 1st Canadian Machine Gun Company 2nd Canadian Machine Gun Company 3rd Canadian Machine Gun Company 13th Canadian Machine Gun Company The 3rd Canadian Machine Gun Company was organized in Meteren in February 1916 as the 3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade Machine Gun Company. It was commanded by Captain E.H. Houghton and was composed of the machine gun sections of the 3rd Brigade's infantry battalions. The company was redesignated as the 3rd Canadian Machine Gun Company in July 1916. The 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 13th Companies of the 1st Canadian Divisional Machine Gun Battalion were organized on 27 March 1918 to form the 1st Battalion, Canadian Machine Gun Corps with a total complement of 96 Vickers Guns.