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Pte. Burton Arthur Mansell
British Army 16th Btn. Royal Tank Corps
Pte Edwin H. Mansell
British Army 18th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
Whilst researching the Mansell Family Tree, I found medal card for Pte Mansell Edwin H, 1775 18 Royal Fusiliers 14 Nov 1915 who was later promoted Captain/Adjutant 12th. Bn "Cadre" Machine Gun Corps. He was awarded "pip, squeak & wilfred and gazetted for a gallantry award.
Pte. Thomas Mansell
British Army 8th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Patrington, Hull
(d.13th Nov 1916)
Pte. A. Mansfield
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Whickham
A Mansfield was wounded in August 1916
Pte. Arthur Mansfield
British Army 15th Btn. Sherwood Foresters
(d.23rd July 1916)
Arthur Mansfield died from wounds sustained on 23rd of July 1916.
Pte. Harry Mansfield
British Army 1st Coy Machine Gun Corps
from:Barley
(d.17th Apr 1918)
Harry Mansfield enlisted in Hitchin as a private in the Bedfordshire Regiment. He was seconded to the 1st Company Infantry Machine Gun Corps, died aged 20 of wounds received during the German Spring Offensive, 17th April 1918, probably at Mount Kemmel, during the Battle of the Lys. He is buried at Lille Southern Cemetery.
Sgt. Henry James Mansfield
British Army 9th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Burton on Trent
(d.30th September 1916)
A/Sgt. James Michael Mansfield
British Army 1st Btn. Monmouthshire Regiment
from:Newport, Mon.
(d.8th Oct 1918)
James Mansfield died age 20 and is buried in Guizancourt Farm Cemetery, Gouy.
Pte. R. N. Mansfield
British Army 110th Seige Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery
(d.1st April 1918)
Private Mansfield was the son of Stafford and Annie Kate Mansfield of Queniborough, Syston, Leicestershire. He was 23 when he died at 29 Casualty Clearing Station, Gezaincourt on 1st April 1918. He is buried in Gezaincourt Communal Cemetery Extension, Grave II.H.15.
L/Cpl. William James Mansfield
British Army 11th Btn. Essex Regiment
from:Smith End, Barley
(d.21st Mar 1918)
William James Mansfield from Smith End in Barley, enlisted at West Ham in Essex. A Lance Corporal in the 11th Battalion The Essex Regiment, he was killed in action during the German final offensive at the Battle of St Quentin 21st March 1918 (British losses at this battle were 177,739. The Germans lost 348,300) He is buried in Vaux Hill Cemetery.
Pte. Frederick George Manson
British Army 8th Btn, East Yorkshire Regiment
from:7 Brunswick Ave, Liverpool St, Hull
(d.13th Apr 1917)
Frederick Manson was the son of Alexander and Catherine Manson (nee Matheson). He enlisted in 1915 and was a private in the 8th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. Frederick died at the age of 19 in the Battle of Arras 1917. He was injured on 11th of April 1917 and sadly died from his injuries on Friday the 13th. At the time, my nan, was 15 years old and would go on to name her first child Frederick in honour of her brave brother. He is commemorated in St Server Cemetery, Rouen, France. Frederick had 4 brothers who survived the war effort: Benjamin, Alexander and James who served in the Navy and William who was with the Army.
Pte. Horace Manson
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Commissioned and continued to serve after the war
Pte. John Manson
British Army 8th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
from:Wick
(d.20th April 1918)
John Manson is buried in France at the St. Venant-Robecq British Cemetery.
Pte. Magnus Manson
British Army 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders
from:Jarrow
(d.18th Aug 1916)
Magnus Manson served with the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders. He was aged 23 when died on 18th August 1916. Born in Jarrow in 1893, he enlisted in Edinburgh.
He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.
Pte. Peter Manson
British Army 2nd Btn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
from:Airdrie
(d.5th Dec 1915)
Peter Manson was killed in action on the 5th of December 1915, aged 21 and is buried the Estaires Communal Cemetery in France. He was the son of Mrs. R. Manson, of 21, Craig St, Airdrie.
Pte. Alfred Lewis Mantle
British Army 1/20th Btn. London Regiment
from:74, Sandling Rd., Maidstone.
(d.7th July 1917)
Pte. Albert Joseph Manton
British Army Loyal North Lancs
Pte. Harry Manton
British Army 1st Battalion Suffolk Regiment
In June 2013 I purchased a pocket watch & scratched into the back was:- H Manton 1st Suffolks 1918 Prisoner of war Germany 1915-1919.
From the records office in Bury St Edunds I have obtained a copy of his WW1 medal rolls index card.From the Suffolk Regiment Gazette of 1916 the following was obtained: Army number 7905, Name Manton H, Unit 1st, Camp Giessen, As the watch was purchased in Diss which is on the Norfolk Suffolk it would appear that he did not stray far after the war. I would love to know more.
L/Cpl. William Frederick Manton
British Army 12th Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:Peckham
(d.14th Jul 1916 )
William Frederick Manton was born in 1882 in Deptford. His father was a Painter by trade and some years later the family moved to Peckham, Camberwell. On August 7th 1904 William married Mary Ann Blackman and they had five children. The eldest was my grandfather William Francis Manton.
The 1911 census shows that William Frederick was working as a Wireman for the London County Council Tramways.
When war was declared William Frederick answered Lord Kitchener's call and enlisted into the 12th Battalion Middlesex Regimentas a Private. He did his basic training at Colchester and on August 24th 1915 he embarked from Folkestone to France. On 31st of May he was appointed Lance Corporal.
On the 14th of July 1916 he took part in the capture of Trônes Wood. Just after midnight the 54th Brigade began to assemble for another attack on the wood. The two nearest battalions were ordered forward with the commander of the 12th Battalion Lieutenant Colonel F.A Maxwell put in charge of the attack. At 4.30 am an hour after the main attack the Battle of Bazentin Ridge had begun. There were eight British attacks on Trônes Wood and the first seven failed because of machine-gun fire from the strong points along the railway through the wood which were not captured until their positions became known.
William Frederick Manton was killed in action on this day, and he has no known grave. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Pte. John Steven "Monty" Mantova
British Army 12th Btn. Manchester Regiment
from:Manchester
My grandfather John Stephen Mantova was half Italian. He was a private with the 12th Btn Manchester Regiment from 1914. He served in many places including the Somme. We know little about his war-time story as he didn´t like to talk about it. His number was 4343, but he was sent home on several occasions with wounds to his arms, legs, chest and back. Some of these were massive holes that a cloth could be put through to clean the wounds.
Eventually in 1915/16 he was transferred as unfit for active duty to the Royal Engineers, working out in Mesopotamia (Iraq) helping build new roads, probably using prisoners or war and deserters. His number there was 251026.
Before the war he trained as a stone mason, but when he returned home and was demobbed in 1919, he was unable to carry out his trade as he could no longer lift or use the tools. From 1919 until 1960 he gave 41 years of faithful service to the City Corporation of Liverpool as a tram conductor, for the last three years as a bus conductor when the City scrapped its trams the last one going out of service in 1957. He was awarded the British War Medal, the Victory Medal and the 1914/15 Star, but these later were stolen. He died in October 1980.
Pte Sidney Harold Manuel
British Army 10th Btn Rifle Brigade
Pte. Henry Manville
British Army 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment
from:Uckfield
(d.20th Nov 1914)
Henry Manville died of wounds in France & Flanders on the 20th November 1914, aged 35. He was born in Burgess Hill, Sussex, the son of John and Elizabeth Manville of Coxe's Cottages, Plumpton, Sussex and enlisted at Uckfield, Sussex. Henry is buried in Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery, France in Plot III. Row A. Grave 25. He is commemorated on the War Memorial at All Saints' Churchyard, Plumpton and on the Roll of Honour inside All Saints' Church where he shown as enlisting in The Royal Sussex Regiment in 1914. However he first enlisted in the RGA before transferring to The Royal Sussex Regiment. Henry was my Grandfather's older brother and was the only one to not return from the Great War out of all his brothers who enlisted including my Grandfather.
Fitter. William Alfred Gorbutt Mapplethorpe
British Army 114 Battery Royal Field Artillery
from:Lincoln
(d.21st Mar 1918)
Pte. William Mappley
British Army 18th Battalion Middlesex Regement
(d.26th Sept 1918)
Pte. William "Gragga" Mara
British Army 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Regiment
from:Kilmaganny, Co Kilkenny, Ireland.
William Mara served with the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Regiment, he died in March 1955.
Pte. K. C. Marais
South African Forces Cradock Commando Mounted Commandos
(d.21st December 1914)
Private Marais is buried in the Schuitdrift Farm Burial Ground, Pofadder, Northern Cape, South Africa.
Gnr. Clement Albert March
British Army 197 Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Woolwich
My granddad, Clement March, came home from WW1 and died in 1964. Before the war he worked at the Woolwich Arsenal making munitions. His family came from the Gloucester area to work in the Woolwich Arsenal, as did his wife's family.
After the war, he went back to the Arsenal but had a fall on cherries in the market square outside the Arsenal main gate. He broke his hip or leg and it wasn't put right. He had a big built-up boot and a bad limp. He could no longer work in munitions and cleaned the toilets instead. He then took up shoe mending, shoe making, and making cricket balls. He did this through the 1950s and 1960s. I remember his shed and the sheets of leather for the soles. My nan (also in the photo) mended shoes. They lived in Plumstead all their married life and were married over 50 years. They had two girls - my mum (who also worked in munitions in WW2). My dad was also in the Royal Artillery in WW2. I have great memories of granddad. I was born in 1950. He let me get away with so much, I remember him repairing shoes so much I used to do my own. He did say he went to Italy and brought back two lovely brooches made of tiny, tiny stones in patterns/flowers, and a pretty silk hankie. I asked his daughter (my aunt) if he ever spoke of the war, but no he didn't. But I now know what he must have seen and went through. I do remember he had a great respect for horses that came on deliveries to the door and he always had a look and a pat or a carrot.
L/Cpl Edward Arthur March
British Army 4th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment
from:Wetherby
(d.12th Apr 1918)
Pte. John Arthur March
British Army 1/6th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Leicester
John Arthur March was my Great Grandfather. He passed away in 1987, when I was 4 years old and because of this I don't remember him, but I'm always interested in hearing about him.
Jack joined the Army on the 5th January 1916 at the Glen Parva Recruitment Office in Leicester. On the 12th February 1916 he enlisted in the Durham Light Infantry and was sent to France and fought, as you might expect, in the Trenches. Because of his time in the Trenches he developed Trench Feet. It became seriously infected and it required him to be sent to the Graylingwell War Hospital in Chichester, England for 8 days. He was admitted on the 24th April 1917 and discharged on the 2nd May 1917. After that period he was then transferred to the Convalescent Hospital in Eastbourne, England and stayed there for 48 days. He was admitted on the 2nd May 1917 and was discharged on the 19th June 1917 and was then deemed reasonably fit to return active service, but had to stay in England. In total he spent 1 year, 7 months in France and 1 year 6 months in England as, but was also transferred to the Northumberland Fusiliers at some point during the War. I'm trying to gather as much information about his time in the Northumberland Fusiliers as I can but it's proving to be tough to find out anything about it. During his time in the Trenches he would get bored at times and end up shooting the rats which may sound funny but this ended with him getting into trouble and he was called up on a Disciplinary, but he got off lightly and was cautioned. Whether he continued his assault on the rats I don't know.
John March (Benfield) and his son John Arthur March. John Arthur March c1916 just before he was sent to France with the Durham Light Infantry & John March just before he was to join the National Reserves in England
On the 4th April 1919, after the end of the War, he wasn't formally discharged. Instead he was transferred to the Royal Defence Corps as he was deemed too physically unfit to be able to be on the front line. Which I believe was due to developing Trench Foot. So, he survived the War and was able to return to his family and friends. Which I am extremely pleased about as it meant that I had a chance to meet my Great Grandfather. One strange thing is that both of his discharge dates are birthdays in my immediate family. Excluding the years, the 2nd May is my Mum's birthday and the 19th June is my brother's birthday.
Sgt.Mjr. John Edward March
British Army 22nd Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Leicester
John March joined the Royal Army Medical Corps on 30th of Nov 1901 aged 19. He had previously served in the 1st Volunteer Battalion Leicestershire Regiment (Militia). Prior to WW1 he served abroad in South Africa and in Aldershot.
He progressed through the ranks and was promoted to Staff Sergeant (Sgt) on 10th Aug 1914 and joined the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in Belgium on 16th Aug 1914. The following year on 5th Jun 1915 he was promoted to 2nd Quartermaster Sgt (2QMS). On 16th Sep 1915 he joined No 22nd Field Ambulance, 7th Division in the Field . On 15th Oct 1916 he joined No 7 General Hospital in St Omer and then Boulogne and remained until 24th Mar 1919. On the 31st Dec 1916 he was appointed Acting Sgt Major for the duration of the War and on the 1st Jun 1918 he was promoted to Temporary Warrant Office (WO) Class I & appointed Temporary Sgt Major. On 20th Jun 1918 he was substantively promoted to WO Class II.
John Edward March was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal, which was promulgated in the London Gazette on 17th Jun 1918. On 12th May 1919 he returned to Depot RAMC Aldershot and on 1st Oct 1921 was promoted to substantive WO Class I and appointed Sgt Major. He was posted to the Mustapha Reception Station in Alexandria, Egypt and his family went with him. They returned to England on the 8th Apr 1927. He was discharged on 24th Sep 1927 after 26 Years Service.
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