Name
Charles George Thomas Machon
1883
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/08/1917
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/18070
The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 12 and 14.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial in Belgium to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town memorial, Barley Village Memorial, St Clements Church Memorial, Turnford, Not on the Anstey Memorial
Pre War
Charles George Thomas Machon was born in Anstey, Hertfordshire, in 1883, son of George Machon a, Plumber & Glazier and Mary Jane Machon (nee Clark). One of seven children.
1891 Census records Charles aged 8, at school, living with his parents, four sisters and two brothers at The Chequers Inn, Cheapside, Anstey, Herts.
His mother Mary Jane Machon died in 1892, aged 38.
His farther George remarried in 1895, to Sarah Ann Clark.
1901 Census records Charles aged 17, employed as a Builders Painter, living with sisters, Sarah (22) and Florence (19), at their Grandmother’s, widow Elizabeth Machon in, Church End, Barley, Herts.
1911 Census records Charles (27), single, employed as a Handyman at a Garden Nursery, boarding with Charles and Elizabeth Tullett and their family at, 7 Nunsbury Cottages, Turnford, Herts. His father George, stepmother Sarah and brother Harry are living in Church End, Barley, Herts.
Wartime Service
Charles enlisted at Enfield, Middlesex, posted to the 7th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment and issued with the service number G/18070.
On completion of his training, he served on the Western Front, where he was Killed in Action on 4th August 1917. He has no known grave; he is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial in Belgium to the missing.
Additional Information
His effects of £7-1-4, pay owing and his war gratuity of £3, went to his sister Ada Grace Jessie Machon.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Paul Johnson, Adrian Pitts
