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Wars Last Goodbyes
Individual Record
Inscription
In loving remembrance
Of
Pte A. J. Mann
31st Canadian Infantry
Who was reported missing at Courcelette
France Sepr 27th 1916
And afterwards presumed killed on that date
Aged 32 years
Also of
Pte E. W. Mann
12th Middlesex Regt
Who died in hospital at Etaples, France
Of Enteric fever Sepr 22nd 1917 and was
Buried in the military cemetery there
Aged 39 years
In their saviour's keeping
Place of Inscription
Warwick Cemetery
Warwickshire
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Albert James
Mann
18th May 1884
Warwick, Warwickshire
27th September 1916
Missing presumed killed in action west of Courcelette, France
32
Vimy Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
First World War
Private
31st Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force
2nd Canadian Division Woodcutting Unit
Albert enlisted in Canada in 1914 where he was a surveyor, arrived France 1915 and was wounded in the head in June 1916. This memorial also commemorates his brother Ernest William who died during the war. Their next of kin was their eldest brother Arthur Henry Mann, Editor of the London Evening Standard newspaper.
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