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49 9th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers
Maurice Cardy was born in 1889 in Tottenham, London, one of eleven children of Maurice and Violet Jeanette Cardy. His father had been born in Sudbury but moved to London where he was a bricklayer.
By 1911 the family was living in Sudbury at 32 Mill Lane and his father was employed as a general labourer for Sudbury Borough Council. Maurice by this time was serving in the Royal Marines Light Infantry onboard the cruiser HMS Highflyer in the East Indies. In 1913 he married Beatrice Cross in Wandsworth, London.
It is not known if he transferred to the Royal Fusiliers or if he had left the Royal Marines prior to 1914 and re-enlisted at the outbreak of war. His younger brother Robert served alongside him in the same battalion. The brothers landed with their battalion in France on 1 June 1915. The 9th Battalion formed part of 36th Brigade, 12th (Eastern) Division and the Division was in the Armentieres Sector in the summer of 1915 and suffered considerable losses for what was a relatively quiet sector during that time.
Maurice died aged 26 on 6 August 1915 (his medal card gives 5 August - the same date as his brother Robert) and lies buried in Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres, France. He lies only twelve graves away in the same row as his brother Robert. A Cross of Remembrance was laid by his grave in June 2015.
Maurice was awarded the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal.
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