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George Douglas Machin
1893 - 1985
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George Douglas Machin was born in Stoke Newington in
January 1893 and was educated at Owens School.
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At the outbreak of the war in 1914 he was employed in the
illustrations and Publicity Department of Ovaltine.
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At the outbreak of the war he enlisted in to the Bedfordshire Regiment
and in April 1915 he joined the 1st Battalion on Hill 60, just before the
Germans launched the famous gas attack on the 22nd.
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• “our front lines were little more than
sandbagged ditches with corpses protruding
here and there, the whole area was invested
with rats…….I was on intelligence duties,
sketching trenches and sniping, with some
inter-lines patrolling…..I continued front line
duty until the vile winter of 1915, when a long-
deferred leave at last came through”.
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Spencer –type balloon of 23 KB Section in Abeele May 1918 when Captain Machin was
acting commander
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Machin’s original recommendation for the
Distinguished Flying Cross
• “When heavily shelled and his balloon has
been hit he has remained up on several
shoots in which he was engaged or to
range artillery on to the gun which was
shelling him. On two occasions the balloon
lost so much gas that it fell fast at the
end”.
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• “On October 14th 1918, this officer with another was up at a height of over 5000 feet in a balloon when they were attacked and were forced to jump out in their parachutes which collided, and the cords of one got round Lieutenant Machin’s neck. He narrowly escaped strangulation and had a very heavy shock when landing as the parachutes remained locked together”.
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• “In spite of these incidents, Lieutenant Machin has always retained his keenness and nerve, and continues to set an excellent example to all Observers in his Wing. Throughout this year Lieutenant Machin has set a fine example to the balloon officers of this Army. In both retirement and advance he has kept his balloons in action and in touch with the R.A”.
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London Gazette 8th February 1919
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During the 1st War he undertook illustration work in
“Blighty”
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Blighty Magazine
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At the end of hostilities he served on attachment to the Supply and
Transport Corps from the Indian Army Reserve of Officers for several
years
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Wedding Day
21st September 1920
Bombay Cathedral
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Bombay Cathedral
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He returned to civilian life as a sports cartoonist for the Daily Mirror, he
later became a freelance artist, working for many of the big newspapers
and magazines, including the Tatler.
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With the outbreak of the 2nd World war he was commissioned in to the
Royal Army Service Corps.
He was shipped to the middle east where he was seriously wounded at
Tobruk by an exploding shell.
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Whilst in hospital suffering from two broken legs he was spotted by
Randolph Churchill sketching from his hospital bed, which resulted in it
being arranged for him to be transferred G.C.H.Q. at Cairo where he
drew illustration for military instruction manuals.
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A typical military manual that he worked on.
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Distinguished Flying Cross, 1914-15 Star.
British War Medal1914-20 Victory Medal 1914-19.
M.I.D.(R.A.F.).
1939-45 Star.
Africa Star.
Defence and War Medals
Royal Naval Auxiliary Long Service
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In Royal Mine Watching service
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Captain Machin served in the Royal Naval Mine Watching Service in
the early 1950s and remained in what became the Royal Naval
Auxiliary Service for 17 years at the Hastings Unit and later in Bexhill.
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“Pass it man, don’t hang on to it!”
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A trip to Australia in 1978
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Joy Laurey Collection “Could you lend me a hand to pull a few strings…..my Royal Mine Watching Service.”
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Major R F G Shaw TD
4/5 Bn. Royal Sussex T.A. Officer’s Guest Night 1964
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He took his pencil and sketchbook on five world tours. The
Americans loved him and a sketch he prepared of Robert
Kennedy was framed and presented to the senator shortly
before his assassination.
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Tim Jarman, his wife Sue, formerly Machin and niece of
Douglas, with their family
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Sussex Express 28th January 1985
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Daily Mail in May 2007
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Bibliography & Acknowledgements
• Kite Balloon Recollection by Captain G D Machin, DFC
• Dix Noonan Web Auctioneers (Medal Auctioneers)
• The Daily Mail
• The Tatler
• The London Gazette
• The Swan Public House
• Church of the Latter Day Saints
• Bonham's Auctioneers
• My personal thanks go to;-
• Dorothy & Laurie Messer
• John & Tikki Kay
• Edwina & Richard
• Richard Sirley
• Sue and Tim Jarman
• Robin Redmile-Gordon
• Betty Kipling
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Dixon Noonan Webb
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George Douglas Machin having the last laugh.