Military History

Max is listed as dying of wounds on 13th September 1916, having been wounded earlier in the day at Ravin des Cuisiniers. The following description of events for the period 11th to 14th September is taken from The History of the King's Liverpool Regiment by Everard Wyrall and Captain W A T Synge which can be read on the Internet Archive here.

"At 7 p.m. on the 11th the [14th] King’s men moved up from camp near Baobab, north of the Smol, to a position of readiness in Ravin des Cuisiniers, where they bivouacked. They remained in this ravine throughout the 12th and until 7.30 on the 13th, shelled heavily at intervals, for the hostile troops they had opposite them were not Bulgarians, but Germans, whose intelligence was far better than that of the former, and who probably knew that an attack was materialising.

On the 12th the King’s had four other ranks wounded, and on the 13th [September] (before the attack) seven killed and twenty-one wounded, Captain M. E. A. Anderson dying of his wounds later in the day.

At 7.30 p.m. the King’s men moved out of the Ravin, passing through the wire in A.10 at a strength of 350 all ranks. The battalion then collected in the Macukovo Ravine at the point of assembly, establishing touch with the 12th Lancashire Fusiliers, who were on the left. At 9.30 p.m. Second-Lieut. Bryson and Second-Lieut. I. B. Humphrey took out patrols to investigate the enemy’s wire, the latter officer becoming mortally wounded in carrying out his orders; he died on the 14th.

At 1.15 a.m. on the 14th, the battalion advanced to the attack, A, C and B Companies forming the firing line with D in reserve at Battalion Headquarters, which were in Macukovo. There are no details concerning the actual advance, but by 2 a.m. the Piton des Mitrailleuses and the Dorsal Ridge had been captured completely, and were in our hands.