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Ruvigny et Raineval, Melville Henry Massue, marquis de, 1868-1921

Chapter 36: 1908. On the outbreak of the European War he went to France with the

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Chapter 36: 1908. On the outbreak of the European War he went to France with the

Expeditionary Force and was killed in action 20 Oct. 1914; _unm._ =CAVEY, SIDNEY=, Corpl., No. 357, B Coy., 13th Battn. 4th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd _s._ of William John Cavey, of 198, Cromwell Road, Peterboro’, Farmer, by his wife, Catherine Martha, dau. of John Barker; _b._ Plumstead, 9 Jan. 1884; educ. Woolwich Polytechnic; joined the Bedfordshire Yeomanry in 1906, and rose to the rank of Sergt. He afterwards emigrated to Australia in Feb. 1912, and was engaged in farming when war was declared. He at once joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, and died in hospital at W. Mudros, Lemnos Island, of pneumonia, 11 Oct.
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