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One sheet, This is a recruitment poster for the British Machine Gun Corps
from the early 20th century. The poster, titled "Travel All Over the World with the Machine Gun Corps," was likely created around 1919. It depicts two soldiers of the Machine Gun Corps standing on a globe, with one carrying a machine gun on his shoulder, suggesting the opportunity for travel and adventure while serving.
The Machine Gun Corps was a unit of the British Army formed in 1915 to specialize in the use of machine guns, which became a dominant weapon in the trench warfare of World War I. The corps was disbanded in 1922. |
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