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41st Company, Machine Gun Corps



   The 41st Machine Gun Company joined 14th (Light) Division on the 15th of February 1916. They were in action on the Somme seeing action in The Battle of Delville Wood and The Battle of Flers-Courcelette. In 1917 they fought in The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, The First and Third Battle of the Scarpe at Arras, The Battle of Langemark and The First and Second Battle of Passchendaele. In 1918 they returned to the Somme. On the 1st of March 1918 they joined with the other Machine Gun Companies of the Division to form 14th Machine Gun Battalion.

18th Feb 1915 Training

21st Jun 1915 Orders to Attack  location map

22nd Jun 1915 In Action

22nd of June 1915 Attacks ordered

23rd September 1915 Order

25th Sep 1915 In Action

15th Feb 1916 Reorganisation

17th Feb 1916 Inspection

18th February 1916 Postings

18th Feb 1916 Inspection

21st Feb 1916 On the Move

24th Feb 1916 On the March

25th Feb 1916 Snow

29th Feb 1916 On the March

1st Mar 1916 Recce

2nd Mar 1916 Objective Captured

2nd Mar 1916 Reliefs

5th Mar 1916 Reliefs

6th Mar 1916 Reinforcements

25th March 1916 Reliefs

31st Mar 1916 In the Line

6th Apr 1916 Officers Wounded

30th Apr 1916 Holding the Line

1st May 1916 Holding the Line

3rd May 1916 Arrival

4th May 1916 Reliefs

9th May 1916 Posting

10th May 1916 On the March  location map

14th May 1916 Recce  location map

15th May 1916 Working Parties  location map

19th May 1916 Posting  location map

20th May 1916 Posting  location map

22nd May 1916 On the March  location map

23rd May 1916 At Rest

26th May 1916 Inspection

27th May 1916 On the March

11th of April 1917 Reliefs  location map

12th of April 1917 Reliefs  location map

12th of April 1917 Very Cold West Day

24th of April 1917 Orders

19th August 1917 Operational Order 125  location map

20th September 1917 Operational Order 131

9th Dec 1917 Reliefs  location map

15th Dec 1917 Reliefs  location map

24th Dec 1917 Reorganisation

21st Jan 1918 Course

5th Feb 1918 Course Ends

13th Feb 1918 Personnel

21st Feb 1918 Reorganisation

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41st Company, Machine Gun Corps

during the Great War 1914-1918.

  • Barrell Reginald Percy. Rflmn. (d.26th March 1918)
  • Roberts MID. Harry. L/Cpl.

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L/Cpl. Harry Roberts MID 41st Coy. Machine Gun Corps

Harry Roberts was my grandfather. He joined up in August 1914, when he had just turned 18 and was transferred to the Machine Gun Corps from the 7th Rifle Brigade on 18th February 1916 where he remained until his discharge in April 1919. He was Mentioned in Dispatches on 24th December 1917 after Passchendaele. Immensely proud of him, although he passed away before my brother or I were born. His memory will live on.

Helen Roberts




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Rflmn. Reginald Percy Barrell 21st Btn. att. 41st Machine Gun Corps. King's Royal Rifle Corps (d.26th March 1918)

Rifleman R P Barrell with his niece Hilda Clara

My great uncle, Reggie Barrell, was the youngest brother of my grandfather (my mother's father). He was a farm labourer and had 13 siblings. His mother Annie Elizabeth couldn't write so signed the birth certificate with an X. The family worked the land and lived in a hamlet in Baylham, then Nettlestead, in Suffolk. My grandfather eventually came to London and became a master butcher owning his own shop and Uncle Reggie came to visit and probably stayed with his brother in Camberwell when he joined the army, possibly going on to Aldershot, as my grandfather owned property near there.

Uncle Reggie and his regiment was posted to Italy and then sent back to France where he was killed at the Somme aged 22 years. He is laid to rest in the CWG St Hilaire Cemetery, Frevent, France. RIP dear uncle Reggie.

Rifleman R P Barrell in Platoon

CWG St Hilaire, Frevent

Carole Evans






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