World War 1
Search the known records to date of those lost from the wider Alnwick area in World War 1
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Michael Mallon
Forename(s):
Michael
Surname:
Mallon
Initial(s):
M
Service Number:
6873
Rank:
Sergeant
Regiment:
Machine Gun Corps, 207th Company
Died:
26/09/1917
Aged:
30
Buried:
Tyne Cot Memorial (Tyne Cot Cemetery)
Service History:
Enlisted at Whitehaven, Cumberland in September 1914 & joined the Northumberland Fusiliers 4th Battalion (Regimental service #17910).
In 1915 transferred to the Cheshire Regiment (Regimental service #21039) & twice received shell wounds. In May 1917, the 'Alnwick & County Gazette' reported that he was wounded again & in hospital. The wounds received were accompanied by shell shock.
Mallon was promoted to Sergeant & transferred to the Machine Gun Corps. He was killed in action on 26 September 1918.
A fellow Sergeant wrote to Mallon's brother in Felton:
'I saw Sergeant Mallon killed by a shell beside his officer with all his team on 26 September at the Battle of Ypres. It was in the afternoon... They were all buried together where they fell.'
(Source: 'Felton War Memorial: The Men behind the names'; Eleanor George [formerly Hall]; 2009; p. 19)
Background:
Born at Felton, Northumberland, the son of Patrick & Margaret Mallon.
Husband of Caroline Mallon, of Birkenhead, with whom he had a daughter, Lilian.
Pre-enlistment occupation: Agricultural Labourer.
A first cousin to Private Martin Kelly (
Local Memorial:
Felton War Memorial incorporating Acton, Eshott, Swarland & Thirston
