JOHN HAMON MASSIE (D S O)

John Hamon's Story.

Photograph taken by Mavis Williams 1st August 2016





Close-up of John Hamon Massie's name on the Roll of Honour






Photograph taken by Bob on the 14th August 2017, Many thanks to him.




John Hamon Massie D S O in the UK, De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, 1914-1919

Name:  John Hamon Massie D S O 

Gender:               Male

Rank:     Major

Regiment or Ship:            Royal Garrison Artillery

Birth Date:          10 Jun 1872

Birth Place:         Eaux Chaudes, Basses Pyrenees, France

Enlistment Date:              1 May 1892

Enlistment Place:             Woolwich

Father: Edward Richard Massie

Mother:               Olga Marie Wessenberg-Ampringen

Volume:               Volume 1

MASSIE, John Hamon, D.S.O.,Major, Royal Garrison Artillery, yr. s of Edward Richard MASSIE, of Coddington, Cheshire, and Annefield, Gresford, North Wales, formerly Lieut.78^th Highlanders, by his first wife, Baroness Olga Marie, d/o Baron von WESSENBERG-AMPRINGEN and grand-daughter of Henry Baron von WESSENBERG-AMPRINGEN, formerly Austrian Ambassador at St. James’, and grandson of Admiral Thomas Leche MASSIE; b. Eaux Chaudes, Basses Pyrenees, France, 10^th June 1872; educ. Stubbington House (Mr. M. FOSTER), and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2^nd Lieut, 1^st May 1892; promoted Lieut. 1^st May 1895; Capt. 19^th Jan 1900, and Major, 15^th February 1913; served in Chitral, 1895, with the Relief Force (medal with clasp); and in the South African War, 1900-2, attd. to the Transport Department; took part in the operations in the Orange Free State, Feb. To May, 1900; operation in the Transvaal in May and June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg and Diamond Hill; operations in the Orange River Colony, May to 29^th Nov, 1900 to March 1902, and those in the Orange River Colony, March to 31^st May 1902 (mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette, 17^th Jan. 1902), Queen’s medal with four clasps and King’s medal with two clasps, D.S.O.); was Instructor at the Royal Military Academy from 1 Jan. To 11 Sept. 1904; Commander of a company of Gentlemen Cadets there from 12 Sept. 1904 to 31 Dec. 1908, and Staff Capt. School of Gunnery, Shoeburyness, Nov. 1910 to Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 9 Oct. 1914, and died in the Field Ambulance, near Ypres, 15 Nov. following wounds received in action on the 13^th, when in command of the 26^th Battery, Heavy Artillery.   Buried in Ypres Cemetery.   Major MASSIE m at Southsea, co. Hants, 3 Sept. 1903, Maria Margaret elder dau. of Major-Gen. Ernest Archibald BERGER, Late 10^th (The Lincolnshire) Regt.; s.p.






Medal Card



Major Massie is also in the Gresford Roll of Honour in the Postch of All Saint's Church, Gresford.

 Photograph taken by Mavis Williams on the 21st August 2017

Researched and compiled by Mavis Williams