William Cranston - 3rd Bn. Machine Gun Corps Journal

Item

Title

William Cranston - 3rd Bn. Machine Gun Corps Journal

Identifier

9162.cpd

Subject

Cranston, William James

Abstract

Articles from the magazine of the 3rd Bn Machine Gun Corps, issue no 1, May 1919. I have 100 pages of the originals of issues 1-6 with many descriptions of actions in the Great War and accounts of regimental life.

Editor's Comment:
'Honorary Editor, Lt.-Colonel W. J. Cranston. D.S.O.'. Cartoon portrait of Lt.-Col. Cranston facing prefatory material, with an article 'The Chronicles of the 3rd Bn. M.G.C. | No. 1 | Arras | March 21-28 1918'.

Second Lieutenant (acting Lieutenant Colonel) William James Cranston DSO, Royal Scots Fusiliers and Staff, served additionally in the North Staffordshire Regiment and commanded the 13th Bn. King's Liverpool Regiment and 3rd Bn. Machine Gun Corps.

Date

May 1919

Date Created

1919-05-01

Temporal Coverage

1919-05-31

Source

Folio

Medium

Paper

Type

Publication

number of pages

4

Contributor

Richard Marshall
Peter Shipley
Mrs Fiona Shipley

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford