Hugh Cecil Marnham
Rank/ Unit - Service number: Pilot - 2nd Lieut, Royal Flying Corps (10th Sqdn/ Sussex Yeomanry) |
Died: 1916.08.22 |
Age at death: 20 |
Action: Pas de Calais |
Burial place / memorial, TNA reference: Le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg-L'Avoue, Pas de Calais (IV.B.6) [Medal card TNA ref WO 372/13/123471] |
Son of Herbert and Madeline Marnham, of Frognal Rise, Lower Terrace, Hampstead (until after 1921); father was a stockbroker and Baptist. Born Jan 1896 in Hampstead; educated at Heath Mount School, Hampstead, and Mill Hill School (where he was a boarder in 1911). Commissioned Lieutenant in Sussex Yeomanry May 1915 and transferred to Royal Flying…