Machine Guns: Their History and Tactical Employment (Being Also a History of the Machine Gun Corps, 1916-1922) by ...

Machine Guns: Their History and Tactical Employment (Being Also a History of the Machine Gun Corps, 1916-1922) by G.S. Hutchison. 1938

London, Macmillan & Co, 1938. First edition. Intenally fine with numerous black and white ills. Frontis. Scarce. Lieutenant-Colonel Graham Seton Hutchison (20 January 1890 - 3 April 1946) was a Scottish First World War army officer, military theorist, author of both adventure novels and non-fiction works and fascist activist. Seton Hutchison became a celebrated figure in military circles for his tactical innovations during the First World War but would later become associated with a series of fringe fascist movements which failed to capture much support even by the standards of the far right in Britain in the interbellum period. In 1914, he returned to the British Army initially with the 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the Machine Gun Corps. In 1917 Seton Hutchison, at the time a Major and Machine Gun Officer in the 33rd Division, convinced his commanding officer to group all the machine gunners, who were spread between four brigades, into a single company under his command, a scheme that was soon rolled out across the British Army resulting in the Machine Gun Corps becoming an independent branch of the army. He also became noted for his strong opposition to retreat and recounted a story of how in March 1918 he shot all but two of a group of forty British soldiers fleeing from the German Imperial Army.

hardcover

15x22 cm.

349 pp