Name
Cecil Thomas Hugh Myddelton
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/05/1916
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
9410
London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade)
5th (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. AMAND BRITISH CEMETERY
I. A. 6.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial, St. Peter’s Church Memorial, Mill End
Pre War
Born Twickenham where he was baptised on 11th May 1885, son of Richard Frederick and Annie Caroline Kate Myddelton later of Colne Mead, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.
From the 1911 census the father Richard was aged 50 and a commercial representative. Mother is Kate. Sisters Gladys, Kittie aged 19 and Irene Dorothea aged 14 are also recorded. They were living at Colne Mead, Rickmansworth.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at London, entered France on 4 Nov 1914 and died of wounds.
Died of wounds on 21st May 1916 aged 21. On 6th May the Battalion had marched from its billets in the Doullens area for the Hebuterne sector during preparations for the British effort on the Somme.
The war diary records that he was killed on 21st May as the battalion marched to Hebuterne 'Y' section trenches that morning. It had been a trying march.
He had served on the Western Front from 5th November 1914.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Robert and Sally Williams
