The Wartime Memories Project

- 34th Company, Machine Gun Corps during the Great War -


Great War>Allied Army
skip to content


This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this site you agree to accept cookies.


If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation.



    Site Home

    Great War Home

    Search

    Add Stories & Photos

    Library

    Help & FAQs

 Features

    Allied Army

    Day by Day

    RFC & RAF

    Prisoners of War

    War at Sea

    Training for War

    The Battles

    Those Who Served

    Hospitals

    Civilian Service

    Women at War

    The War Effort

    Central Powers Army

    Central Powers Navy

    Imperial Air Service

    Library

    World War Two

 Submissions

    Add Stories & Photos

    Time Capsule

 Information

    Help & FAQs



    Glossary

    Our Facebook Page

    Volunteering

    News

    Events

    Contact us

    Great War Books

    About


Advertisements

World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great 1914 1918 first battalion regiment

34th Company, Machine Gun Corps



   34th Company Machine Gun Corps served with 11th Division, in Egypt from 1st of March 1916. They amalgamated with 32nd & 33rd Companies to form No 11 Battalion, MGC on the 28th of February 1918.

2nd Jul 1916 Reliefs  location map

1st of June 1917 Instructions for the Offensive  location map

3rd Oct 1917 Instructions  location map

3rd Oct 1917 Instructions  location map

24th Dec 1917 Reorganisation

3rd of January 1918 Location of Divisional Units  location map

10th of January 1918 Reliefs and Orders  location map

13th of January 1918 More Snow - More Training  location map

21st of January 1918 Reliefs  location map

21st Jan 1918 Course

23rd January 1918 Harassing Fire  location map

24th of January 1918 Artillery Very Quiet  location map

25th of January 1918 MG Fire All Night  location map

28th of January 1918 Enemy Aircraft Brought Down  location map

3rd of February 1918 Dugout Attacked  location map

5th Feb 1918 Course Ends

10th of February 1918 A Large Explosion  location map

12th of February 1918 Canadian Raid Goes Ahead  location map

13th of February 1918 Raid Co-operation  location map

13th Feb 1918 Personnel

17th of February 1918 Shelling  location map

20th Feb 1918 Enemy Sentry Hit  location map

21st Feb 1918 Reorganisation

24th of February 1918 A Daylight Patrol  location map

26th of February 1918 Enemy Heavies Active  location map

28th of February 1918 Divisional Defence Scheme  location map

28th Jul 1918 Preparations

28th Jul 1918 In Action

30th Jul 1918 In Action

If you can provide any additional information, please add it here.





Want to know more about 34th Company, Machine Gun Corps?


There are:5259 items tagged 34th Company, Machine Gun Corps available in our Library

  These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War.


Those known to have served with

34th Company, Machine Gun Corps

during the Great War 1914-1918.

  • Hambleton Thomas. Pte. (d.17th Apr 1918)
  • Lathlan William John. Pte. (d.11th Jan 1917)
  • Lathlane William John. Pte. (d.11th Jan 1917)
  • Parker Charles Frederick. Pte. (d.21st March 1918)
  • Watson James.

All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List

Records of 34th Company, Machine Gun Corps from other sources.


  • The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website.

  • 1st of September 2023 marks 24 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time.

Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the Great War? Our Library contains many many diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text.



Looking for help with Family History Research?   

Please see Family History FAQ's

Please note: We are unable to provide individual research.

Can you help?

The free to access section of The Wartime Memories Project website is run by volunteers and funded by donations from our visitors.

If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web.

If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation.


Announcements

  • 22nd April 2024

        Please note we currently have a massive backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 263973 your submission is still in the queue, please do not resubmit.

      Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to the Great War. If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted.





      We are now on Facebook. Like this page to receive our updates, add a comment or ask a question.

      If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page.


      World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great battalion regiment artillery
      Did you know? We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations.






242195

Pte. Charles Frederick Parker 34th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (d.21st March 1918)

Charles Parker was my Grandfather, my mum, who was 9 years old when he was killed, always held him in some mythical awe. There is a fairly comprehensive article about him on stockwellwarmemorial.org

Ray Coleman




221881

Pte. William John Lathlan 34th Machine Gun Corps (d.11th Jan 1917)

My mum is the great niece of Private William John Lathane. She learned his story and that of her great aunt, his wife, from his sister-in-law, but her family were reluctant to talk about the war, understandably. All she has handed down to her was his dog tag, but she has always been interested in the family history, and we have found some information, any more would be great.

Marion Parry




1723

Pte. William John Lathlane 34th Coy Machine Gun Corps (d.11th Jan 1917)

Pte William John Lathlane Photo taken by E.G.Brewis at Newcastle upon Tyne October 1914 showing William John Lathlane wearing the Blue Kitchener uniform given to new recruits at the outbreak of war.

This photograph of Esther & William was taken at the Pleasure Gardens Studio possibly when William was home on leave November 1916

A locket owned by the family of Esther Isabell Lathlane showing her late husband William John Lathlane killed in action 11th January 1917.


William has no known grave and is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial, he was 27 years old.

Simon Richard Lathlane






Recomended Reading.

Available at discounted prices.









Links


    Suggest a link
















    The free section of The Wartime Memories Project is run by volunteers.

    This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources and we currently have a huge backlog of submissions.

    If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small to help with the costs of keeping the site running.


    Hosted by:

    The Wartime Memories Project Website

    is archived for preservation by the British Library





    Copyright MCMXCIX - MMXXIV
    - All Rights Reserved -

    We do not permit the use of any content from this website for the training of LLMs or for use in Generative AI, it also may not be scraped for the purpose of creating other websites.