Vivian Moses

Second Lieutenant Vivian Sylvester Moses was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1897, in Hampstead, the only son of barrister Samuel and Beatrice Moses (née Scott), of London and Ingham, respectively. Moses was educated at University College School and St Paul's before he continued his studies as a classical scholar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was commissioned in December 1916 and went to the Western Front in January.The Times (41507), p. 6: "Fallen Officers". 18 June 1917.
Aged 19, Moses died on 4 June 1917, killed instantly by a shell while observing the firing of a trench mortar. He had been serving with the 11th Divisional Ammunition Column, Royal Field Artillery. 
He is buried in La Laiterie Military Cemetery. A memorial fund in his name was registered in 1965 by the United Synagogue to provide financial support to Jewish veterans of the First World War in need.Vivian Sylvester Moses Memorial Fund, beta.charitycommission.gov.uk. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
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*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Moses, Vivian Sylvester, cwgc.org. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
Category:1897 births
Category:1917 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:Buried in Belgium
Category:Second Lieutenants