The RFA Was the original unit that fielded Motor Machine Gun Batteries using Mk. I Vickers MGs mounted on Clyno Motorcycle combinations.
Members of these units were transferred to the Machine Gun Corps upon its formation in 1915.
During the Second World War, the Royal Regiment of Artillery (formed from the amalgamation of the Royal Field Artillery with the Royal Garrison Artillery and Royal Horse Artillery in 1924) used the Vickers when it operated as infantry as part of the Chindit Columns in Burma.