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153rd Company, Machine Gun Corps



   The 153rd Machine Gun Company was formed in 153rd (2nd Highland) Brigade, 51st (Highland) Division on the 15th of January 1916. They were in action in the The Battle of Festubert and The Second Action of Givenchy before moving south to The Somme taking over the line near Hamel. In 1916 they were in action in the Battles of the Somme, including the attacks on High Wood and The Battle of the Ancre, capturing Beaumont Hamel, taking more than 2000 prisoners. In 1917 They took part in the Arras Offensive, The Battle of Pilkem Ridge, The Battle of Menin Road Ridge and the Cambrai Operations. They joined with the other machine gun companies of the Division to form 51st Machine Gun Battalion on the 19th of February 1918.

1st Jul 1916 Shelling

2nd Jul 1916 Mine

3rd Jul 1916 Shelling

10th Jul 1916 Camouflet

11th Jul 1916 Shelling

12th Jul 1916 Reliefs  location map

13th Jul 1916 Trench Raid

14th Jul 1916 Relief Completed

15th Jul 1916 On the Move

16th Jul 1916 On the Move

19th Jul 1916 Orders

20th Jul 1916 On the Move  location map

21st Jul 1916 Orders Received

22nd Jul 1916 Reliefs Completed  location map

23rd Jul 1916 In Action  location map

24th Jul 1916 Heavy Shelling  location map

25th Jul 1916 Heavy Shelling  location map

26th Jul 1916 Relief  location map

27th Jul 1916 Attacks Made  location map

28th Jul 1916 Shelling  location map

29th Jul 1916 Heavy Shelling  location map

30th Jul 1916 Attack Made  location map

31st Jul 1916 Consolidation  location map

31st Jul 1916 Report  location map

1st Aug 1916 Instructions

15th Oct 1917 Preparations  location map

19th Oct 1917 Line Taken Over  location map

13th Nov 1917 In Action  location map

14th Nov 1917 In Action  location map

16th Nov 1917 Report  location map

24th Dec 1917 Reorganisation

21st Jan 1918 Course

5th Feb 1918 Course Ends

13th Feb 1918 Personnel

21st Feb 1918 Reorganisation

22nd Feb 1918 Arrival

2nd Mar 1918 HQ Established

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History of the 51st (Highland) Division 1914-1918

F.W. Bewsher


The Highland Division was one of the pre-war Territorial divisions. Its HQ was in Perth with brigade HQs in Aberdeen, Inverness and Stirling. On mobilization the division moved down to its war station in Bedford where it remained, carrying out training till embarking for France in May 1915. During this period six of its battalions were sent to France, three in November 1914 and three in the following March, replaced by two Highland battalions and a brigade of four Lancashire battalions; it is not clear whether the latter were required to wear kilts. They were transferred to the 55th (West Lancashire) Division when that division reformed in France in January 1916 and were replaced, appropriately, by Scottish battalions. It was in May 1915, just as the division arrived in France, that it was designated 51st and the brigades 152nd, 153rd and 154th; by the end of the war the 51st (Highland) Division had become one of the best known divisions in the BEF.






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