Canadian Machine Gun Corps

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| unit_name = Canadian Machine Gun Corps

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| dates = 16 April 1917 – 15 December 1936

| country = Canada

| branch = {{ubl | Canadian Expeditionary Force (1917–1920) | Canadian Militia (1919–1936)}}

| type = Machine gunners

| role = Direct and indirect machine gun fire

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• Canadian Expeditionary Force (1917–1918)
• Permanent Active Militia (1919–1923)
• Non-Permanent Active Militia (1919–1936)

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| nickname = "Emma Gees"

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| battles = First World War

| notable_commanders = Raymond Brutinel

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The Canadian Machine Gun Corps (CMGC) was an administrative corps of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) and of the Canadian Militia.{{cite book |title=The Regiments and Corps of the Canadian Army |publisher=Queen's Printer |year=1964}}{{Cite web |title=Canadian Machine Gun Corps |url=http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/corpsbranches/machineguncorps.htm |access-date=2022-03-13 |website=www.canadiansoldiers.com}}{{Cite web |date=2007-11-30 |title=Canadian Machine Gun Corps, and Royal Canadian Permanent Machine Gun Brigade |url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/na-canada/inf/CMGC.htm |access-date=2022-03-13 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071130042718/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/na-canada/inf/CMGC.htm |archive-date=30 November 2007 |url-status=dead}} It was part of the CEF sent to France during World War I. By 1918, the CMGC consisted of four battalions (each of four machine gun companies), and five independent motor machine gun batteries, attached to each of the four Canadian divisions. In addition, the 20th Machine Gun Company CEF served at Vladivostok as a unit in the Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force.{{Cite book |last=Morris |first=David |title=The Canadian Militia |publisher=The Boston Mills Press |year=1983 |isbn=0-919822-51-7 |location=Erin, Ontario |publication-date=1983 |pages=325-326}} The CMGC donated a wall plaque at St. George's Church in Ypres.{{cite web |url= http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/overseas/first-world-war/belgium/Menin |title=Menin Gate Memorial and St. George's Church |work=Veterans Affairs Canada |year=2015 |accessdate=22 July 2015}}

The Canadian Permanent Machine Gun Brigade was organized in the Permanent Force on 16 April 1917. The brigade was redesignated the Royal Canadian Permanent Machine Gun Brigade on 16 June 1921. This brigade was disbanded on 1 November 1923. The Non-Permanent Active Militia component of the CMGC continued to serve until it was disbanded as part of the 1936 militia reorganization, and its roles were transferred to the newly formed infantry (machine gun) battalions.{{Cite web |title=1936 Reorganization of the Militia |url=http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/organization/1936modernization.htm |access-date=2022-03-13 |website=www.canadiansoldiers.com}}{{Cite web |title=Machine Gun Battalion |url=http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/tactical/machinegunbattalion.htm |access-date=2022-03-13 |website=www.canadiansoldiers.com}}