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Claude John Ainslie
British Indian Army 222nd Coy. Machine Gun Corps

My grandfather, Claude John Ainslie, served with the 222nd MGC Company in 1917 and 1918 in Campbellpur, (modern Attock), in what was then British India. In 1913 he helped form the Calcutta Scottish and trained all recruits in the use of the Vickers, forming the 22nd (sic not 222) Machine Gun Battery. This was an Indian Army Unit. as he was issued with a British Commission in 1917.
He later in 1918 joined the staff of the Rawalpindi Division who fought in the 3rd Afghan War. Attock is of course very close to Pindi which

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