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|name=Percy Wilfred Machell
|imageimage1 =[[File: Percy Wilfred Machell at Blackhall Racecourse01.jpg|center|275px]]
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|rank=Lieutenant Colonel
|image1_alt = Lt-Col. Percy Machell at Blackhall Racecourse in Carlisle
|number=N/A
|image_caption = Lt-Col. Percy Machell at Blackhall Racecourse in Carlisle
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|attached=Egyptian Army 1886
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|former unit=56th (Essex) Regiment 1882
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|scroll_name = Percy Wilfrid Machell
|resident=Crackenthorpe Hall, nr Appleby, Westmorland
|scroll_battalion = 11th Battalion (Lonsdale)
|born=1862
|scroll_regiment = The Border Regiment
|died=[[1 July]] 1916
 
|where died=Near Authuille, Somme
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|how died=[[Glossary:k.i.a.|Killed in action]]
|rank = [[Lieutenant Colonel]]
|age=54
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|date of death=[[1 July]] 1916
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|casualty type=Commonwealth War Dead
|battalion = [[Lonsdale Battalion]]
|grave-mem=Grave
|regiment = [[Border Regiment]]
|ref-no=A.17
|enlisted =
|resting place=Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery
|attached = Egyptian Army / 1886
|source={{clear}}*{{CWGC}}
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|notes={{clear}}*Honours/awards CMG 1906, [[Glossary:Distinguished Service Order|DSO]]}}
|former_unit = See Service History below
'''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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|name = Percy Wilfrid Machell {{sc|cmg, [[Distinguished Service Order|dso]]}}
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|born = 1862
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|former_employment = Overseas Soldier
|spouse = Valda, Countess Of Gleichen / Married 1905
|children = Roger Victor Machell / Born 1908
|parents = Canon Richard Beverley Machell and the Hon Emma (sister of the 8th Lord Middleton) / Crakenthorpe Hall, Westmorland.
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|residence = Crackenthorpe Hall, near Appleby
|nationality = English
 
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|casualty_type = Commonwealth War Dead
|died = [[1 July]] 1916
|age = 54 Years
|cause_of_death = [[Killed in action]]
|burial_type = Grave / Inscription: {{sc|56 Regt. 1882 Egyptian Army 1886 C.O. XII Sudanese 1891 - 1895 Adviser of Interior Egyptian Government 1898 - 1908 Prospice}}
|reference_number = A.17.
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|newspapers = Press appreciations<br>[[A Non-Commissioned Officer's Tribute (Westmorland Gazette)]]<br>[[The Late Colonel Machell: An Appreciation (Workington Star)]]<br>[[How Lieut-Colonel Machell Fell (West Cumberland Times)]]
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|biography = '''Percy Wilfrid 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]].
 
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 [[Blackhall Racecourse|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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* 1898-1908 saw him in the role of Adviser to the Ministry of Interior, Egypt
* 1902 Grand Cordon of the medjidie
* 1906 C.M.G.{{sc|cmg}}
* 1914-16 raised, trained and commanded 11th Border Regiment (Lonsdale)
 
==Press appreciations==
*[[A Non-Commissioned Officer's Tribute (Westmorland Gazette)]]
*[[The Late Colonel Machell: An Appreciation (Workington Star)]]
*[[How Lieut-Colonel Machell Fell (West Cumberland Times)]]
 
==See also==
*[[Quotes by Percy Wilfred Machell]]
 
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[[Category:Roll of Honour]]
[[Category:Officers (11th Battalion)]]
[[Category:Rank of Lieutenant Colonel]]
[[Category:Died in 1916]]
[[Category:Died aged 54]]
[[Category:Killed in action]]
[[Category:Casualties with graves]]
[[Category:Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery]]
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