ALBERT EDWARD VICTOR MANN

Image from the Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury – 1916

Born: 2nd September 1897, Whitton-cum-Thurleston, Suffolk.

Baptised on the 13^th October 1897, at St. Matthew’s Church, Ipswich – family home at the Brickworks, Henley Road, Ipswich.

Died: 23rd March 1916; age: 18;  KiA – shot by a sniper.

Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury – Friday, 26^th November 1915 – Mr. and Mrs. Mann, of Grove Cottages, Henley Road, Ipswich, have received information that their son, Private Frederick Mann, of the 7^th Suffolks, is in hospital at Chichester, suffering from frost-bitten feet, and that another son, Private Albert Mann, of the same regiment, is in the County Hospital Colchester, suffering from wounds received in France.

Residence: 13, Grove Cottages, Henley Road, Ipswich.

Enlistment Location: Ipswich.

Date of Entry Therein: 30th May 1915 – France.

Rank: Private; Service Number: 14495

Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 7th Battalion.

Medals Awarded: Victory, British War & 1915 Star.

Grave Reference:

B.41.

Quarry Cemetery,

Vermelles,

Pas de Calais,

France.

CENSUS

1901   Hill Cottages, Holbrook, Suffolk.

Albert was 3 years old and living with his parents & siblings.

Frederick Henry Mann, 32, a Brickyard Labourer, born Rushmere St. Andrew, Suffolk.

Alice Rose Mann (nee Scopes), 30, born Needham Market, Suffolk.

Alice Beatrice Maud Mann Scopes, 12, born Barham, Suffolk.

Walter Henry Mann, 8, born Whitton cum Thurleston.

Frederick Alfred Mann, 5, born Whitton cum Thurleston.

Florence Mabel Mann, 10 months, born Lower Holbrook.

1911   13, Grove Cottages, Henley Road, Ipswich.

Albert was 13 years old, a Farm Labourer. He was living with his parents & siblings.

Frederick, 42, General Labourer – Brickworks –  Bolton & Co. Ltd., The Dales Brickyard.

Alice, 40.

Walter, 18, General Labourer.

Frederick, 15, a Farm Labourer.

Florence, 10.

Annie Louise Mann, 7, born Whitton cum Thurleston.

Robert William Charles Mann, 6, born Whitton cum Thurleston.

Stanley Harry Felix Mann, 4, born Whitton cum Thurleston.

Soldiers’ Effects to Frederick Mann – father.

Albert is also remembered on the war memorial at St. Mary & St. Botolph Church, Whitton-cum-Thurleston, Suffolk and at Springfield School, Ipswich.

Albert’s maternal uncle, Robert Scopes, was killed in action on the 11^th November 1914. Robert was a Sergeant, 3671, with the Essex Regiment, 2nd Battalion, and is remembered on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. Robert was 42 years of age and from Great Blakenham, Suffolk.

A beautiful photograph of Albert’s mother, Alice Rose Mann (nee Scopes), courtesy of Julie.

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