'No military pomp attended its birth or decease. It was not a famous regiment with glamour and whatnot, but born for war only and not for parades. From the moment of its formation it was kicking. It is with much sadness that I recall its disbandment in 1922; like old soldiers it simply faded away. 'so said former machine gunner George Coppard 'With a Machine Gun to Cambrai'