Description
Casualty groups to brothers – Canadian Infantry and Middlesex Regiment
Canadian Memorial Cross (in box of issue) 79196 Pte A. J. Mann; 1914-15 Star, 79196 Pte A.J. Mann, 31/ Can. Inf; British War and Victory Medals, 79196 Pte A.J. Mann. 31 – Can. Inf.
British War and Victory medals, 23510 Pte E. W. Mann R. Fus
Albert James Mann
A.J. Mann was born in 1884, the son of James Wight and Annie Elizabeth Mann from Warwick
He emigrated to Canada some time between 1891 and 1911.
A newspaper article records that he was wounded in a recent engagement on the Western front, and is in hospital at Boulogne, he writes” It was on Tuesday afternoon last when I got hit myself. But not before we had had a glorious time shooting them down, as about 300 or so of them were trying to occupy a crater. We lost some, but nothing like so many as they did.?
His medical records show the above wound was a gunshot wound to the head on the 7th June 1916
The Warwick Advertiser on the 11th November 1916 contains the following:
“Private A J Mann of the Canadian infantry who was in the open attack on German trenches at Courcellette at noon on the 26th September and who has not been since heard of, is now reported as missing”
He is confirmed as Killed in Action on the 27th September 1916 at Thiepval and buried at Vimy memorial, Pas de Calais.
With copied Canadian service / casualty records.
Ernest William Mann (Bother of A.J. Mann)
E W mann was born in 1878 the son of James Wight and Annie Elizabeth Mann
He served in the 12th battalion, The Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
He died of enteric fever on the 22nd September 1917.
Condition – NEF
