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The Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade was the first fully mechanized unit of the British Army. It was established on September 9, 1914. It was initiated and commanded by Brigadier-General Raymond Brutinel and played a significant part in halting the major German offensive of March 1918.
In 1918 Brutinel's force consisted of 1st and 2nd Canadian Motor MG Brigades (each of 5x8 gun batteries), Canadian Cylist battalion, one section of medium trench-mortars mounted on lorries (plus an assumed wireless and medical support)[1] This totalled 80 machine guns and about 300 cyclist infantry
- ^ P. Griffith p 129 "Battle Tactics on the Western Front - The British Army's art of attack 1916-18 Yale university Press quoting the Official History 1918 vol.4, p42
