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Captain Michael Day MAUDE
Son of Lt. Col. W. W. Maude, of The Fleets, Rylstone. (younger brother of
Captain Gerald William Edward Maude of the 1st Battn. Yorkshire Regt., - died
India 5 November 1919).
Died of wounds, aged 27, on 14 October 1917.
Buried in Rylstone (St. Peter) Churchyard.
John Sly (<sly211@btinternet.com>) has researched the career of Captain
Maude in connection with his medals. John has written a short biography of
Captain Maude and this may be read below.
Army Medal Office rolls confirm the award of the 1914 Star, but not the Bar,
despite giving his date of disembarkation as 5 October 1914.
His career is recorded by Ferrar (who recorded a Bar to the 1914 Star).
He was born 29 September 1890 at The Fleets, Rylstone, Skipton, the son of
Lieut-Colonel William Wade Maude, a farmer, and his wife Beatrice Lucy Letitia
Geraldine (née Day).
He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in 3/Yorkshire Regiment 7 June 1913,
Lieutenant 17 May 1914, Captain 1 February 1915.
He fought at the First Battle of Ypres with 2/Yorkshire Regiment. A letter
published in the Green Howards Gazette for December 1914 recorded: ‘Early
in the morning of the 31st [October], however, what was left of A Company...had
to go into trenches to fill a gap between two regiments...Maude and about
50 more men came in that day, having been lost the previous evening.’
He was taken ill with ptomaine poisoning 8 November 1914, and this was referred
to in the ‘2nd Battalion News’ dated 6 December 1914 and published
in the Green Howards Gazette for January 1915: ‘Our stay in Bailleul
had one effect on us which was rather disastrous. We all got poisoned by something
or other, and Maude had to go to hospital, he was so bad. He
seemed to get worse there and had to be shipped off to England, but we hope
to see him back soon.’
He was severely wounded in the thigh by shrapnel while commanding B Coy of
the 9/Yorkshire Regiment on the Menin Road 20 September 1917.
He died in the Military Hospital, Western Heights, Dover, 14 October 1917.
His address was given as Ellenthorpe, Bowbridge, Yorkshire. The cause of death
was recorded as gunshot wound of thigh, acute septicaemia, and heart failure.
He was buried in the west part of St Peter’s Churchyard, Rylstone, 19
October. An obituary was published in The Times of the same day.
(Refs: WO 372
LG 1913 p 3994; 1814 p 5281; 1915 p 1958; 1917 p 226
WO 339/9030
Officers Of The Green Howards [Ferrar, 1920] p 312
General Register Office
GHG vol XXII pp 157 & 191; vol XXV p 77
The Green Howards In The Great War [Wylly] pp 33, 52, 76-7, 79, 82, 305-8
The Times 19 October 1917 p 9 col 4)
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