BORN BRIDLINGTON 27/10/1888. SON OF THOMAS (TOM) MACHEN (1864-1937) & MARY COULTAS (1866-1950). HE MARRIED MARY ELIZABETH GALLOWAY, AT HULL, IN 1908. THEY LIVED AT 9, MELBOURNE TERRACE, BEAN STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS ADDRESS). HE LATER MOVED TO 12 WILSON AVENUE, RHODES STREET, HULL. HIS FIRST JOB WAS AS A SEAMAN ON THE SS ‘CALEDONIAN’, ON 06/06/19105. HE THEN WORKED FOR MANY YEARS AS A PLATELAYER, FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL AS PRIVATE, 23897, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED AS PRIVATE, 33468, WITH THE 2ND YORKSHIRE HUSSARS. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 09/11/1916, AGED 27, ATTHE 97TH FIELD AMBULANCE STATION. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, MARY, AND SON GEORGE, WHO MOVED TO 12 WILSON AVENUE, RHODES STREET, HULL. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 27/11/1916, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
HE IS BURIED AT HUMBERCAMPS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, FRANCE.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE WW1 MEMORIAL, ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, NEWINGTON, HULL.
