Mayne, Cecil Robert

MAYNE,

CECIL ROBERT

BORN 3 SEPTEMBER 1898

Cecil Robert Mayne was born 3

September 1898, son of Robert Mayne (b 1861 in Wexford, Mayo, Ireland) and Minnie Todd Mayne (b 1867, Roundstone, Galway).

The 1901 census shows the family living in Main Street North, Wexford with a younger son Thomas R B Mayne (b 1901). In 1911 the family were living at 1 Oxford Road, Erdington, Warwickshire. By this time the family included a daughter Evallane Buckley Mayne (b 1902 in Wexford) and a son Robert John Buckley Mayne (b 1906 in Wexford).

Cecil entered the school on 15 September 1908 and left on 27 July 1909, leaving from form Upper I. His father was a Commercial Traveller. Cecil is recorded as attending Bedford School in 1914.

Cecil was a Second Lieutenant in the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 2nd/5th Battalion attached to the 7th Battalion and was killed in action in France on 30 November 1917, aged 19.

He is remembered with honour at the Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, Nord-Pas-de-Calaias.

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