Artistic Christmas Card. On front is a line drawing of a Vickers MG set up firing from behind a slope and has the No 2 lying alongside the gun with a No 3 climbing the slope. Wording on the front is "Christmas AD 1916, MGC". Machine Gun Corps cap badge at top. Drawn by R Borlase Smart, Lt MGC.

Borlase Smart has an entry in the Who's Who of Art (attached). It shows he has been a member of the Artists' Rifles (24 London Regiment) then The Queen's (Royal West Surreys) and later Captain and instructor in camouflage in the Machine Gun Corps.

SMART Robert Borlase Capt (MGC Database Reference: SKR/DAT/IP/79123)

Red ribbons holding inner paper inside card cover.

Inside:

Christmas, 1916

Kindly Christmas Greetings and all good wishes for a bright New Year.

From Brigadier General Hill and all ranks of the Machine Gun Training Centre to the Officers, WOs, NCOs and men of No. 128 Machine Gun Company.

From: HILL Henry Cecil de la Montague Brigadier (MGC Database Reference: SKR/DAT/IP/89355)

SKR0012.1.16.2 shows the same card addressed to another company.

SKR0012.1.8.2

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