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Object ID
1998.132.072
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1998.132
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Badge, Cap
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Cap Badge - Motor Machine Gun Corps
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BADGES
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Cap Badge - Motor Machine Gun Corps
Cap Badge - Motor Machine Gun Service [Corps]
Badge: Crossed Vickers Machine Guns under a King;s Crown. Underneath the guns are the letters "MMG".
The Motor Machine Gun Service was a unit of the British Army in the Great War consisting of batteries of motorcycle/sidecar combinations carrying Vickers machine guns. It was formed in 1914 and incorporated into the Machine Gun Corps in 1915 as the Machine Gun Corps (Motors).

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