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96th Company, Machine Gun Corps
96th Machine Gun Company, Machine Gun Corps joined 96th Brigade 32nd Division on the 15th of March 1916. In 1916 they were in action during the Battles of the Somme 1916, In 1917 they were involved in Operations on the Ancre and the pursuit of the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line.
On the 21st of February 1918 they joined with the other machine gun companies of 32nd Division and became 32nd Battalion MGC.
24th Dec 1917 Reorganisation
21st Jan 1918 Course
5th Feb 1918 Course Ends
13th Feb 1918 Personnel
21st Feb 1918 Reorganisation
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255433 Pte. Patrick Etherington Short MM. 96th Coy. Machine Gun Corps Patrick Short was born on 14th of March 1891 at 21 Great Denmark Street, Dublin in Ireland.
He joined the South Lancashire Regiment on 28th of November 1915 and transferred to the Machine Gun Corps in 96th Brigade 32nd Division.
He was in hospital when the war ended in 1918 having a hernia operation, he was in the Merchant Navy during the Second World War.
After the war he went to Canada for a time then returned to Norwood London and died in 1977.
His brother Francis David Short was in the First War but I have no details on his service. He may have been in the Devon or Dorset Regiment. He survived.
Another brother Thomas was in the British Army.
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244498 Pte. Albert Victor Burdock 96th Company Machine Gun Corps (d.3rd December 1917) Albert Burdock was a bell ringer in Holy Trinity Church, Guildford prior to the 1st World War, though it appears his home town was Derby.
He joined the RAMC (service No. 72906)and was later transferred to the Machine Gun Corps, 96th Company, attached to 96th Brigade, 32nd Division.
He was killed in action 3rd Dec 1917 in Ypres Salient, and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
He is also remembered on a small memorial in the bell ringing chamber at Holy Trinity, Guildford.
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