Friday, 20 November 2015

Maurice Hammon arrives in France

On the 20th November 1915 Maurice Frederick Hammon arrived in France with the Royal Engineers.

Maurice, aged 36 in 1915, was my first cousin 3 times removed was born in Chlesea, London in 1879. The fifth son of six of John Frederick Hammon and Elizabeth Ann Hammon (Nee Bush).  His elder brothers were Ernest (born 1863), Frederick William (born 1866 but died the same year), Arthur (born 1871), all of whom were born in Wimbledon and Alfred (born 1873 in St.Pancras). His younger brother Frederick Sydney Hammon (born 1884 in Southwark).

In 1911 he was living at 55 Elliots Row, Southwark and he married Elizabeth Phypers in 1912 also in Southwark. Their daughter Elsie was born in Southwark in 1913 but had died towards the end of 1914. His father, John was a bricklayer by trade.

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