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.