Samuel Machon

Name

Samuel Machon

Conflict

First World War

Date of Death / Age

27/07/1916

Rank, Service Number & Service Details

Private
16198
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.

Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards

Not Yet Researched

Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country

THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 2 C.
France

Headstone Inscription

NA

UK & Other Memorials

Barkway Village Memorial,
St Mary Magdalene Church Memorial, Barkway,
Not on the Royston memorials

Pre War

Born Bethnal Green. Resident and enlisted Royston.

Wartime Service

Sam was killed in an attack on Longueval during the Battle of the Somme. Heavy gas shelling during the battalion's advance caused many casualties.

Acknowledgments

Paul Johnson, Adrian Pitts