The story moves on - after a day looking up Google, I find that Kendall Reginald James von Tunzelmann Saxon, born Sept 1894 was an officer in D Company, 4 Battalion, NZ Rifle Brigade in WW1. He won the Military Cross and bar. His number was 26/17. Whilst at Cambridge university he was photographed with Harold Abrahams ("Chariots of Fire") and he was a 1st class cricketer. He died in 1976 in Pinner, Middlesex, UK (where I lived at that time). His wife Betty lived there with him. His son JHK Saxon has his MC.
He had an older brother, John Buller Hicks von Tunzelmann Saxon, born in 1890. 'Jack' joined the NZ Field Artillery, no 6 Howitzer Battery, and was KIA on the 17 Sept 1916. Sgt Saxon, number 17259, is buried in Flatiron Copse Cemetary, Mametz, a victim of the Somme and High Wood area.
- it makes it all so much more human.
Ian H
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