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99th Company, Machine Gun Corps
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Those known to have served with99th Company, Machine Gun Corps during the Great War 1914-1918. - Boon John Charles. Pte. (d.16th November 1916)
- Hartley Thomas Harold. Pte. (d.1st Aug 1916)
- Moritz Oscar Frank. 2nd Lt. (d.27th July 1916)
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246088 Pte. John Charles Boon 99th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (d.16th November 1916) John Boon, only son of Henry and Margaret E Boon of Mount Pleasant House, Aspley Guise, Bedfordshire, served with the 99th Company, Machine Gun Corps Infantry. He was killed in action on 16th of November 1916 age 21 years during the Battle of The Somme and is buried in the Frankfurt Trench British Cemetery, Somme, France. He was a pupil of Bedford Modern School 1908-12, commemorated on the School War Memorial, which was unveiled in 1923 and in the Roll of Honour, published in The Eagle, December 1923. Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com
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215217 2nd Lt. Oscar Frank Moritz 99th Btn Machine Gun Corps (d.27th July 1916)  Oscar Frank Moritz was the fifth son of the late Hermann Moritz (of the London Stock Exchange) and Elisa Mathilda Moritz (nee Kronhelm) of West Bank, Broadlands Road, Highgate, London. Born at Edmonton, Middlesex, on 21 March 1885. He had two brothers: Arnold Moritz and Julius Hermann Moritz. He attended Cholmeley's Preparatory School in Highgate, and from 1898-1903 Sherborne School in Dorset. After leaving School he became a Barrister-at-Law (Middle Temple) in 1910.
Oscar Moritz enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on 5th of September 1914 as a stretcher bearer and rapidly rose to be a Staff Sergeant. On 30 April 1915 commissioned to the Border Regiment, 10th Bn.; transferred to the Machine Gun Corps (99th) in January 1916. He served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from April 1916 and saw much fighting on Vimy Ridge. He was reported wounded and missing after heavy fighting at at Delville Wood on 27th July 1916 while trying to bring up reinforcements for his gun, having previously received a wound in the thigh. During the battle every officer in his section of the Machine Gun Corps was either killed or wounded. Moritz's body was found some seven weeks later by an old school friend who buried him. He is commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, on the Walkerburn War Memorial and in the Sherborne School Book of Remembrance.
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