A Motor Machine Gun Battery was provided to some Divisions to provide additional mobile machine gun assets.
No. 8 Battery, Motor Machine Guns, joined 1st Cavalry Division on 18 March 1916.
As a unit of the 1st Cavalry Division, it will have taken part in the following battles and engagements.
| 1916 | |
| BATTLES OF THE SOMME | |
| 15 September | Battle of Flers-Courcellette [in reserve to XIV. Corps, Fourth Army]. |
| 1917 | |
| BATTLES OF ARRAS | |
| 09 to 12 April | First Battle of the Scarpe [Cav. Corps, G.H.Q. Reseve. Reinforced First and Third Armies]. |
The unit left for General Headquarters command on 23 October 1917.