Ernest Thomas Arthur Mann

Ernest Thomas Arthur Mann

Service no. 17761

Private, Northumberland Fusiliers, 1st Battalion

Killed in action on 7 June 1917, aged 21

CWGC: "Son of William and Eleanor S. Mann, of 13, Liston Rd., Grafton Square, Clapham, London. Native of Soham, Cambs."

Remembered at Happy Valley British Cemetery, Fampoux, Pas de Calais, France

Information from the 1911 census

The 1911 census shows Ernest Thomas Arthur Mann as one of thirteen children of William and Eleanor Smith Mann and living at Decoy Farm, Hockwold Fen, Brandon, Norfolk. He was then a 13-year-old farm worker but he and four of his siblings were born in Bermondsey, south-east London. His father, William, 43, was a farmer's foreman, born in Soham, Cambridgeshire; his mother, Eleanor Smith Mann, 40, was from Peterborough, Huntingdonshire.

The children on the census were:

Francis James Mann, 18, "working on farm", born in Bermondsey

Elsie Elizabeth Mann, 15, born in Bermondsey

Minnie Hilda Rose, 14, born in Bermondsey

Ernest Thomas Arthur Mann, 13, "working on farm", born in Bermondsey

Dorothy Louisa Mann, 10, born in Bermondsey

Eva Winifred Mann, 8, born in Soham

Una Florence Mann, 7, born in Soham

Flora May Mann, 6, born in Soham

Hulda Olive Mann, 4, born in Soham

George Ernest Mann, 2, born in Pymore Isle of Ely

Harold Albert Langford, 19 and single, a waggoner, lodged with the family.

Eleanor Mary Mann is not present on the 1911 census (she was probably in service). She married in 1920 and had 2 children. One child, Sidney Albert Mann born some time between 1898 - 1899, died before the 1911 census.