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Captain JOHN HAMON MASSEY

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Field Artillery

45th Bde.

Date of Death

Died 27 May 1918

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

JONCHERY-SUR-VESLE BRITISH CEMETERY

I. H. 15.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross, Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Croix de Guerre with Palms (France). Son of Horatio Arthur and Mary Judith Massey. Born in New Zealand. B.A. (Cantab.). Mentioned, with his Bty., in General Berthelot's Ordre General No. 351 of 16th July, 1918; the Bty. also received the Croix de Guerre. His brother George Hocken Massey also fell.
  • Personal Inscription GREAT WAS HIS SOUL IN ITS STAY GREATER STILL IN ITS GOING AWAY
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