MEMORIAL PLAQUE TO 2ND LIEUT MOXLY BEDFORDSHIRE REGT
With prayer book.
John Hewitt Sutton Moxly was born in Woolwich, Kent on December 27th 1891.
He was educated at Victoria College, Jersey, where he won the gold medal for classics and was head of his school. He won a King Charles I scholarship at Oxford University and had served in the OTC there. Moxly was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 4th Bn Bedfordshire Regiment on August 21st 1914.
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£100 - £150
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Moxly landed in France on January 2nd 1915, and was sadly killed in
action on March 12th 1915, after having spent much of the previous two months
in the line. He was shot through the heart while lifting a wire entanglement
over a parapet that the Germans had previously destroyed with mortars. His
commanding officer wrote, 'It was the death of a brave and devoted gentleman.
He was always the same: resourceful, alert, loved by officers and men, as good
an officer as one could ever wish to meet.'
He was laid to rest in Ramparts Cemetery, Ypres.
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