Private 24773 Maurice MARTIN

Private 24773 Maurice Martin{gallery}Pte M Martin{/gallery}1st Battalion, Border Regiment. Formerly Pte 12556 Kent Regiment.
Killed in action in France and Flanders, 23rd August 1916, aged 28

• Buried: White House Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Grave I.H.13
  
• Awarded British War and Victory Medals
  
• Son of Joseph Jevons Martin of Green Lane, Wilnecote
• NNWFHS Memorial: No known memorial in NNWFHS area
  

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for Private Martin
• NNWFHS No Known War Memorial Page
• White House Cemetery
• Border Regiment

Military, Census and Family History Information

• Born c1888 in Workington, Cumberland. Christened on 24 Jun 1888
• Lived in Walsall [1901]
  
• Stationed in Burma with 1st Border Regiment [1911]
• Employed as a regular soldier
  
• Enlisted for WWI in Rangoon, Burma
• Private Martin was living in Burma at the outbreak of war where he had been the manager of a gold mine. His home was in Wilnecote where he had been on leave in May 1917.