Name
Cecil Percy Mansell
1899
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/10/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
22682
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
AWOINGT BRITISH CEMETERY
I. B. 22.
France
Headstone Inscription
IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH
UK & Other Memorials
London Colney Village Memorial, St Mark’s Church Plaque, Colney Heath, We are not aware of any memorial in Tyttenhanger Green
Pre War
Cecil Percy MANSELL was born in late 1899, in Tyttenhanger Green, Hertfordshire, son of Samson/Sampson Mansell, a Bricklayers Labourer and Alice Mary Mansell (nee Thurkettle). One of their eleven children although one died in childhood.
His parents were married on 19th November 1883, at St Thomas Church, Bethnal Green, Lon/Middx.
Cecil was Baptised on 28th January 1900, at Saint Marks Church, Colney Heath, Herts.
1901 Census records Cecil aged 1, living with his four brothers and two sisters, Ellen (7) and Alice (4), in Tyttenhanger Green, Herts. The last house in Tyttenhanger Green, away from The Plough PH.
1911 Census records Cecil aged 11, at school, living with his parents, two brothers, Walter (20), Herbert (8), three sisters, Ellen (17), Alice (14), and Hilda (6), in Tyttenhanger Green, Herts.
Prior to enlisting Cecil was in the employ of Charles Morris at Highfield Hall.
Wartime Service
Cecil enlisted in the Machine Gun Corps in Ampthill on 5th October 1915. - not yet aged 16 years old, he was Private 31541. Later he was posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment and issued with the service number 22682. Cecil departed for France on 21st May 1918, seeing action on the Western Front, he was wounded in action and died of his wounds on 23rd October 1918, following his first visit to the trenches of France.
He is burred in Awoingt British Cemetery in France. Grave Ref: I. B. 22.
Additional Information
His effect of £6-11s-02d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £13-10s-00d, went to his father Samson Mansell.
His Headstone inscription “IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH” was requested by his mother Alice Mary Mansell.
His elder brother Sergeant 13023 Samson Mansell of the Middlesex Regiment was Killed in Action on 15th March 1916.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Graham Clark – World War One – The Fallen of London Colney, Grace Clark, Jonty Wild
