Captain Horace William MEGENEY

Captain Horace William MEGENEY - B Battery, 72nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery

Killed in Action on Saturday, September 21st 1918 aged 28

Military History


Theatre of War	Medals	Commonwealth War Grave or Memorial
France and Flanders	1914 Star & Clasp, British War & Victory Medals	Fins New British Cemetery

Arrived in Theatre	Medal Citation (if app)	SWFHS Area Memorials
31 Oct 1914 in Le Havre, France	~	Warwick (Eleanor Cross) War Memorial
		Warwick St. Nicholas
Action, Battle or Other Reason Killed	Date and Place Enlisted	Warwick School
Hundred Days Offensive	May 1908 in Warwick	Warwickshire RHA Memorial?
		Warwick St. Mary RC Church
Place of Death	Previous Regiments or Units
Chapel Hill - NNW of Epehy	Sgt 15, 1st/1st Warwick Battery, Royal Horse Artillery

Apr 1908 - Enlisted as Gnr 15 in 1st/1st Warwick Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, Territorials
5 Aug 1914 - Mobilised in Leamington Spa
31 Oct 1914 - Arrived in La Havre, France
12 Mar 1917 - Commissioned as 2nd Lt (Gazette)
13 Aug 1918 - Promoted to Captain (Gazette)

Horace is listed as being killed in action on 21 Sep 1918. The extremely brief 72nd Brigade war diary entry for that day is transcribed below.

In lines at Chapel Hill - 21/9/1918: 2nd Lt Megeney killed. END

Personal & Family History

Birth Date/Place	Baptism Date/Place
Apr Qtr 1890 in Warwick	06 Apr 1890 at Warwick, St. Paul

Parents Names	Abode
William and Mary Jane (died 1903) Megeney	1911 - Fernside, Cape Road, Warwick

Wife	Marriage Details
Mary Ellen nee Fitzgerald	Dec 1912 in Warwick

Schools	Schools
Westgate Boys School	Warwick School

Address History	Employment History
1890 - 58 West Street, Warwick	1901 - Scholar
1891 - 79 Friars Street, Warwick	1911 - Estate Agent's clerk at Warwick Castle
1901 - 90 West Street, Warwick
1911 - Fernside, Cape Road, Warwick
1918 - 15 Cherry Street, Warwick