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|battalion=11th Border Regiment<br>Commanding Officer
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|att'd/trans=Egyptian Army 1886
|former unit=56th (Essex) Regiment 1882
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|resting place=Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery
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|notes=Honours/awards:<br>CMG 1906, DSO}}It wasn’t just his experience that made him a great man, it was the high esteem the men of the Lonsdales held for him. Colonel Machell was constantly busy with the preparations for running the camp at Blackhall in Carlisle, doing most of the work himself until his Adjutant Captain Diggle (the rank he held at that time) of the 6th Border Regiment was appointed on the 3rd of December (this position was later appointed to Lieutenant M Gordon).
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