Captain Henry Telford Maffett

Regiment: Leinster Regiment
Date published: 04/12/1914
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 21/10/1914
Age at death: 42
Cemetery: Houplines Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France
Plot: Sp. Mem. 3.
Information: Captain Henry Telford Maffett, Leinster Regiment, killed in action on October the 21st. He was the youngest son of the late Mr. Wm. Hamilton Maffett, Barrister-at-Law, of St. Helena, Finglas, Co. Dublin. He was born in March, 1872, and received his commission in the Leinster Regiment from the Militia in June, 1894, was gazetted Lieutenant, 1895, and Captain in August, 1900. He saw service in Northern Nigeria in August, 1901, and received the medal with clasp. In 1908 he was serving in India, and took part in the operations on the North West Frontier, for which he received the medal with clasp. From November, 1898, to July, 1899, he discharged the duties of garrison adjutant at St. Lucia, later he was employed with the West African Frontier force and acted as Provost-Marshal of the Mohmand Field Force for a short period in 1908.