Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: World War I
• Obituary: Second Lieutenant Harry W Maw
• Name: Harry Maw
• Name: Harry W Maw
• _UID: FA6782FDA0E9496AA90A3B52E199E304BD58
• Census: 31 Mar 1901, Easingwold Farm, Crowle, , Lincolnshire, England; Crowle St Oswald
• Census: 2 Apr 1911, Mount Pleasant Farm, Swinefleet, , Yorkshire, England
• Occupation: 2 Apr 1911, Mount Pleasant Farm, Swinefleet, , Yorkshire, England; Farmers Son Working On Farm
• Military: 22 Aug 1918; Death
• Probate: 5 Mar 1920, London, , Greater London, England

Notes:

Second Lieutenant Harry MAW

Killed in action 22 August 1918

Harry was born at Crowle on 9 February 1893, the only son of Richard Cornelius and Rebecca Maw (nee Chafor) and was christened in St Oswald's Church in March the same year. His father Richard was also from Crowle and his mother was from North Kelsey. Richard was a farmer and in 1901 the family lived at Easingwold Farm but had moved to Mount Pleasant Farm near Swinefleet by 1911. Harry was a farmer's boy helping his father on the farm according to the census.

Sometime before 1913 they moved again to Stowmarket in Suffolk, where in 1914 Harry married Dora Cowling, of Reedness. The couple had one daughter Mytle Irene, born 20 April 1915. His wife had moved back to Reedness by the time of Harry's death and lived at Wheelgate House.

Harry was embodied into the Territorial Force's Suffolk Yeomanry (Duke of York's Own Loyal Hussars) on 12 March 1913 and would have been mobilised on the outbreak of war in August 1914, when his unit became the 1/1st Suffolk Yeomanry. Following almost a year of training and providing Home Defence in and around Suffolk, his regiment were finally shipped to Gallipoli as dismounted cavalry, landing at Anzac Cove on 10 October 1915.

Private Maw was among the high proportion of troops on the peninsular to be struck down with dysentery. Reporting to the East Anglian Field Ambulance on 1 November, he was moved to Mudros four days later, then on to Alexandria for continued treatment. A trip back to England followed later that month but once recovered he returned to Egypt (on 1 June 1916) and reported to the Yeomanry Base Unit on 14 June.

Other than another short bout of diarrhoea in September, he rejoined his unit who spent a quiet period guarding the Suez Canal. On 5 January the Yeomanry were converted into an infantry unit, becoming the 15th (Suffolk Yeomanry) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment and Harry was renumbered to 32048.

In December 1916 Harry had applied for a commission and on 31 January 1917 he found himself on a ship home to take up a post as an Officer Candidate.

On 31 July 1917 he was commissioned as a Temporary Second Lieutenant in the Bedfordshire Regiment. Landing in France after a short furlough before reporting for duty, Harry was posted to the 7th Battalion, joining them on 7 October 1917.

Nothing concrete exists to account for his movements as an officer from this point onwards but the 7th Battalion were engaged in the Third Battle of Ypres in 1917, as well as being very heavily engaged in the German Spring Offensives in March and April 1918. Statistically, it is likely that Harry was wounded during this phase of his service but if he came through those actions unscathed, he was possibly transferred into the 1st Battalion when the 7th were disbanded in May 1918. Alternatively (and more likely based on the 'flow' of others around him at the time), he may have been wounded or taken ill, sent home for treatment, and once he was able to resume his duties, was posted to the 1st Battalion given that the 7th had ceased to exist by his return.

Once what would become the final Allied offensives started in August 1918, the battalion found themselves in the thick of the advance but met with relatively little resistance in the opening stage. Part two of the 1st Battalion history records "The Bedfordshires remained in their support line under heavy gas and shell fire throughout 22 August, consolidating the position and preparing for the next advance. Second Lieutenant Harry Maw was killed during the day's shelling, having joined the battalion over the summer. Harry had served in the ranks on Gallipoli and in Egypt before being commissioned into the Bedfordshires a year earlier and spending time in the 7th Bedfordshires. The 25 years old farmer from Lincolnshire was buried alongside his comrades in a makeshift cemetery 200 metres east of Achiet-le-petit, being moved to the Adanac military cemetery in Miraumont after the war."

Harry is also remembered on Crowle War Memorial, the Whitgift War Memorial, and possibly on the Stowmarket War Memorial.

His service record is held at the National Archives under reference WO339/86993.

[With thanks to Paul Connell for the background and pre war information]

Source: http://www.bedfordregiment.org.uk/1stbn/1stbtnofficersdied.html
Name: MAW, Harry
Unit: Bedfordshire Regiment
Rank: Temporary 2nd Lieutenant
Year: 1918
Volume : O.12
Page: 115
Record source: GRO War Death Army Officers Indices (1914 to 1921)

Christened:
First name(s) Harry
Last name Maw
Sex Male
Birth year -
Baptism year 1893
Baptism date 05 Mar 1893
Place Crowle
Father's first name(s) Richard Cornelius
Mother's first name(s) Rebecca
County Lincolnshire
Country England
Archive Lincolnshire Archives
Page 86
Record set Lincolnshire Baptisms
Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)
Subcategory Parish Baptisms
Collections from England, United Kingdom
© Findmypast

Memorial:
http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/183667/

Obituary:
Birth: unknown
Death: Aug. 22, 1918
Note: Second Lieutenant, Bedfordshire Regiment.
Age: Unknown
Burial: Adanac Military (CWGC) Cemetery Miraumont, France
Plot: III. H. 16.
Created by: Paul F. Wilson Record added: Dec 12, 2005 Find A Grave Memorial# 12670395

Census:
MAW, Richard Corneluis Head Married M 44 1867 Farmer Crowle Lincolnshire
MAW, Rebecca Wife Married
19 years F 43 1868 Kelsey Lincolnshire
MAW, Harry Son Single M 18 1893 Farmers Son Working On Farm Crowle Lincolnshire
MAW, Violetta Daughter Single F 16 1895 Farmer Daughter Dairy Work Crowle Lincolnshire
MAW, Francis Ada Daughter F 7 1904 Crowle Lincolnshire
RAMSKILL, Richard Servant Single M 17 1894 Second Hand On Farm With House Goole Yorks
EMPSON, William Servant Single M 15 1896 Third Hand On Farm With Horses Derry Thorpe Lincs
KELLY, Mathius Servant Single M 14 1897 Cow Boy On Farm Crowle Lincs

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RG number:
RG14 Piece:
28270 Reference:
RG14PN28270 RG78PN1616 RD514 SD1 ED1 SN257

Registration District:
Goole Sub District:
Swinefleet Enumeration District:
1 Parish:
Swinefleet

Address:
Mount Pleasant Swinefleet SO County:
Yorkshire (West riding)

Occupation:
MAW, Richard Corneluis Head Married M 44 1867 Farmer Crowle Lincolnshire
MAW, Rebecca Wife Married
19 years F 43 1868 Kelsey Lincolnshire
MAW, Harry Son Single M 18 1893 Farmers Son Working On Farm Crowle Lincolnshire
MAW, Violetta Daughter Single F 16 1895 Farmer Daughter Dairy Work Crowle Lincolnshire
MAW, Francis Ada Daughter F 7 1904 Crowle Lincolnshire
RAMSKILL, Richard Servant Single M 17 1894 Second Hand On Farm With House Goole Yorks
EMPSON, William Servant Single M 15 1896 Third Hand On Farm With Horses Derry Thorpe Lincs
KELLY, Mathius Servant Single M 14 1897 Cow Boy On Farm Crowle Lincs

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RG number:
RG14 Piece:
28270 Reference:
RG14PN28270 RG78PN1616 RD514 SD1 ED1 SN257

Registration District:
Goole Sub District:
Swinefleet Enumeration District:
1 Parish:
Swinefleet

Address:
Mount Pleasant Swinefleet SO County:
Yorkshire (West riding)

Military:
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=183667
http://www.cwgc.org/search/certificate.aspx?casualty=183667

Name: MAW, HARRY W.
Initials: H W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Bedfordshire Regiment Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Date of Death: 22/08/1918
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: III. H. 16.
Cemetery: ADANAC MILITARY CEMETERY, MIRAUMONT

Probate:
Maw Harry of Wheelgate House Reedness Yorkshire died 22 August 1918 in France Administration London 5 March 1920 to Dora Ann Maw widow. Effects £174 13s. 1d.

Buried:
Plot: III. H. 16.


https://billiongraves.com/grave/Harry-W-Maw/26919056

Harry married Cowling, Dora Ann between Oct and Dec 1914 in District Stow. Dora (daughter of Cowling, Harry and Hannah) was born on 3 Nov 1893 in Reedness, , Yorkshire, England; was christened on 10 Dec 1893 in Whitgift, , Yorkshire, England; died on 27 Feb 1976 in Haslemere, Tudwick Road, Tiptree, Colchester, , Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Myrtle Irene Mattin
• Name: Myrtle Irene Murrell
• _UID: 1610CFBE237E4648B690C0B8CCB00CB1D95B
• Probate: 22 Feb 1993, Ipswich, , Suffolk, England

Notes:

Probate:
First name(s) Myrtle Irene
Last name Mattin
Death year 1992
Death date 14 Sep 1992
Probate year 1993
Probate date 22 Feb 1993
Residence town Ipswich
Registry Ipswich
County Suffolk
Country England
Record set England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1858-2019
Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)
Subcategory Civil Deaths & Burials
Collections from United Kingdom, England
© Findmypast

Died:
Name: Myrtle Irene Mattin Birth Date: 20 Apr 1915 Death Registration Month/Year: Sep 1992 Age at death (estimated): 77 Registration district: Ipswich Inferred County: Suffolk Volume: 10 Page: 2573

Myrtle married Murrell, Clifford Everett between Jul and Sep 1937 in District Risbridge. Clifford (son of Murrell, John and Gawthorpe, Louisa) was born on 4 Apr 1904 in Chesterton, , Cambridgeshire, England; died between Apr and Jun 1971 in Deben, , Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Myrtle married Mattin, Alfred William on 4 Oct 1973 in District Bury St. Edmunds. Alfred was born on 31 Aug 1927 in Bury Saint Edmunds, , Suffolk, England; died in Jan 1985 in Ipswich, , Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Abbott, Janet Joan. Janet (daughter of Abbott, Alfred William and Hammond, Edith May) was born on 12 Oct 1941 in Ipswich, , Suffolk, England; died on 3 Jul 1998 in Ipswich, , Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Russell, Peter George. Peter was born on 18 Feb 1937 in Ipswich, , Suffolk, England; died in Apr 1998 in District Ipswich. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Phillips, Duncan Edward. Duncan (son of Living and Living) was born on 5 Aug 1959 in District Ipswich; died between Apr and Jun 2004 in District Ipswich. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]