Name
Arthur John Mann
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
85787
Machine Gun Corps
19th
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Arthur Mann was probably born at Ampthill in Bedfordshire in January 1883. Census records have not been identified for him, however a Service Record exists.
Arthur married Emily Eames at St Albans on 16th July 1910, and by the time he attested at Watford on 24th June 1916 the couple had two children, a daughter born on 29th March 1910 and a son born on 19th August 1912. When he attested he gave his occupation as an Asylum Attendant, and his address at 9 Asylum Cottages, Abbots Langley.
He was called up for service on 13th December 1916, and the next day was posted to the 43rd Training Reserve Battalion (TRB). Arthur was first recorded in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in February 1917, serving with the 43rd TRB. His record in the Parish Magazine was not altered until December 1918, when he was recorded serving with the Machine Gun Corps Cavalry, in the final published Roll of Honour.
On 14th February 1917 Arthur was transferred to the Machine Gun Corps and was based at Grantham. On 20th June 1917 he joined the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) and subsequently moved to the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF), and on 24th June set sail, arriving on 4th August 1917.
On 3rd August 1918 Arthur was recorded wounded with a severely lacerated scalp, and was admitted to 17 General Hospital at Alexandria on 6th August. It is not known how the injury occurred and he was returned to England, sailing on HM Hospital Ship “Wandilla”.
Arthur was granted leave on 10th October 1918, and spent nine days at home at 9 Asylum Cottages, Abbots Langley between 12th and 21st October. He was listed in the Absent Voter Records for Autumn 1918, living at 9 Tanners Hill, Abbots Langley – presumably where Asylum Cottages were located, and serving as a Private at the Base Depot of the Machine Gun Corps.
After surgery to his head wound at the London City of London General Hospital, Wyatts Park, Camberwell, Arthur was discharged from the Machine Gun Corps, no longer physically fit for War Service, on 25th January 1919. He received a War Badge and Certificate to identify that he had been discharged on 14th February 1919.
Arthur Mann survived the War.
Additional Information
Formerly 43rd Training Reserve Battalion. Discharged no longer physically fit for War Service
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
