BORN HULL 1890. SON OF HENRY & MARY ANN, OF 7, WAKEFIELD STREET, HULL. A FORMER HULL & BARNSLEY RAILWAY CLERK, WORKING 14 YEARS, AT THE CANNON STREET, GOODS STATION. HE JOINED THE COLOURS IN APRIL 1916. SERVED WITH THE DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 26/09/1917, AGED 27.
HE LEFT WIDOW, ETEL MAY MANSFIELD AND DAUGHTER, EILEEN AT 101, WELBECK STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 22/10/1917. *
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE WALKER STREET, WW1 MEMORIAL.
PTE. JOHN MANSFIELD, OF 1 CHARLES TERRACE, DERBY STREET, HULL AND ;CPL, 5134, CHARLES MANSFIELD, 3RD HUSSARS, AT 8 WYNDHAM STREET, HULL.
First name:
GEORGE EDWARD
Military Number:
44171
Rank:
Private
Date Died
26/09/1917
Place died:
Messines Ridge British Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
27
