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|image soldier=[[File:Percy Wilfred Machell at Blackhall Racecourse.jpg|center|290px]]▼
|name=Percy Wilfred Machell
|rank=Lieutenant Colonel
|number=N/A
|company=N/A
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|transferred=
|former unit=56th (Essex) Regiment 1882
|enlisted=
|resident=Crackenthorpe Hall, nr Appleby, Westmorland
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|died=[[1 July]] 1916
|where died=Near Authuille,
|how died=Killed in action
|age=54
|date of death=[[1 July]] 1916
|casualty type=Commonwealth War Dead
|grave
|ref-no=A.17
|resting place=Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery
|source={{CWGC+SDGW}}
|notes=Honours/awards
'''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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