Name
Cecil Collins Mucklestone (poss Muckleston)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/01/1918
37
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
353125
Royal Garrison Artillery
154th Heavy Bty.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
XXXI. F. 19A.
France
Headstone Inscription
Everlasting Memories
UK & Other Memorials
Buntingford Town Memorial
Pre War
Cecil was born on 5 August 1880 in Toddington, Bedfordshire to Alfred Collins and Annie Muckleston.
In the 1901 census he was lodging in Donnington Hall, in Leicestershire and was working as a gamekeeper. On 2 April 1908 he married Laura Evelyn Hare in Chalfont St Giles Buckinghamshire. In the 1911 census they are shown as living at Chalfont Grove Cottage, Chalfont St Giles.
They had one daughter and their second daughter was registered in Royston in 1914.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in Buntingford.
He died of wounds.
Additional Information
His headstone inscription reads 'Everlasting Memories'. His widow is listed as living at 27 Micklethwaite Road, Fulham, London.
Acknowledgments
Kate Thompson
Carol Emery
