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|name=Percy Wilfred Machell
|image=[[File:Percy Wilfred Machell at Blackhall Racecourse.jpg|center|
|rank=Lieutenant Colonel
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|resting place=Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery
|source={{clear}}*{{CWGC
|notes={{clear}}*Honours/awards CMG 1906, [[Glossary:Distinguished Service Order|DSO]]}}
'''Percy Wilfred Machell''' was a soldier in the [[The Lonsdale Battalion - an introduction|Lonsdale Battalion]] between 1914–1916. He attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and was the Battalion's Commanding Officer up to and including [[1 July]], 1916 when he was killed in the advance on the [[Leipzig Salient]] on the 1st Day of the Battle of the Somme. His 2nd in Command was Major [[W. W. R. Binning]].
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