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Rank : Acting Corporal

Army Number : 3466 and 241199

Unit : 2/5th Bn

Biography :

Home address given as Rempstone, Leicestershire. Maurice was born about 1895 the son of Thomas and Susan Malyon. Thomas was born in Westerham, Kent, and his wife in Chippenham, Wiltshire. By the time of the 1911 Census they had been married for 23 years and had had six children of whom five were still living: William/Willie (b. Westerham Kent), Tom (b. Maidstone, Kent), Nellie (b. 1893, Westerham, Kent), Maurice (b. Westerham, Kent) and Myrtle (b. 1904, Essex). In 1891 Thomas (26), an agricultural labourer, was living at Westerham, Crockham Hill, Kent, with his wife Susan (29) and children William (1) and Tom (6 months) together with his widowed mother, Eliza Malyon (72). Thomas and Susan were still living in Westerham ten years later, at Stonestreet Cottages. They now had four children, Willie (11), Tom (10), Nellie (8) and Maurice (6). Thomas was now working as a domestic gardener. By 1911 the family had moved to Rempstone where they were living at 'The Gardens', Rempstone. Thomas was still working as a domestic gardener while his wife was employed as a laundress ('at home'). Both Willie (21) and Maurice (16) were also domestic gardeners while their sister Nellie (18) was a laundress ('at home'). There was also a second sister, Myrtle (7), who was still at school. The third son, Tom (20), had left home and was a printer compositor boarding with the family of AE Bateman at Junction Road, Cowley, Oxfordshire. Of Maurice's siblings, Tom Malyon probably died in 1945 aged 54 (death registered Oxford), while Nellie (b. 14 May 1893) may have died in 1981 (death registered Ashford, Kent).

Enlisted at Loughborough, Leicestershire. Served with the 2/5th Bn during World War One. Killed in action France and Flanders campaign 27.9.1917. He is commemorated on Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

Date of Birth : c1895

Place of Birth : Westerham, Kent

Date of Death : 27.9.1917

Place of Death : Belgium

Civil Occupation : Gardener

Period of Service : 1910s

Conflicts : WW1

Places Served : France and Flanders