Name
Henry William Machon
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/09/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
TF6498
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
1st/8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
EUSTON ROAD CEMETERY, COLINCAMPS
I. F. 33.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Buntingford memorials
Pre War
Henry was born in Buntingford in 1880 to Sarah and John who were the licensees of the George Inn, Buntingford.
By 1891 they had moved to Folkestone were his father was running a Lodging House. The 1901 census shows the family as living in Chiswick High Road. and in 1911 he was living with his widowed mother and brother in Gold Hill, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire. He was working as a ledger clerk.
Acknowledgments
Kate Thompson
Carol Emery