ERNEST WALTER CHARLES MANN
Image from the Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury – 1917
Born: 1878, Westbourne, Ipswich.
Died: 8th January 1915; age 37; KiA at La Bassée.
Residence: Saxmundham, Suffolk.
Occupation: Postman at Saxmundham, Suffolk.
Enlistment Details: Age: 18 years – 8 years in the Colours – 4 years in the Reserves.
Re- Enlisted September 1914 – France.
Date of Entry Therein: 12th November 1914.
Rank: Private; Service Number: 9489
Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 2nd Battalion.
Medals Awarded: Victory, British War & 1914 Star.
Memorial Reference:
Panel 21.
West-Vlaanderen,
Belgium.
Brother to GEORGE DAVID MANN. and ALBERT ERNEST MANN
1916 – Suffolk Chronicle And Mercury
THIRD SON LOST IN THE WAR
Mr. Albert Mann, Rosebery Road, Ipswich, has just received official information that his son, Prvt. Albert E. Mann, Royal Scots Fusiliers, who had been reported as missing was killed in action at Salonika. This is the third son Mr. Mann has lost since the outbreak of the war. The eldest son, Ernest, who was a postman at Saxmundham, was killed in the battle of Neuve Chapelle; another son met with an untimely death in a cycle accident at Martlesham while serving with the Suffolk Yeomanry, and the only son left of the family is now training at Felixstowe. Their names and regiments are as follows:- (1) Prvt. Ernest Mann, Suffolk Regiment; (2) Trooper George Mann, Suffolk Yeomanry; (3) Prvt. Albert E. Mann, Royal Scots Fusiliers; (4) Stanley Mann, R.G.A.
CENSUS
1891 Lawn Villa, Foxhall Road, Ipswich.
Ernest was 12 years old and living with his parents & siblings.
Albert Mann, 36, a Saw Mill Labourer, born Woodbridge, Suffolk.
Ellen Mann (nee Giles), 32, born Bramford, Suffolk.
George David Mann, 7, born Ipswich.
Annie Ellen Mann, 2, born Ipswich.
1911 12, Benhall Green, Saxmundham, Suffolk.
Ernest was 32 years old, a Postman – Post Office. He was married & Head of the Household.
Ethel, 33.
Ernest and Ethel recorded their late son, Wilfred Albert Mann, as aged 1 month and also that they had had one child and one child had died.
On the 2nd December 1905, at Holy Trinity Church, Ipswich, 27 year old Ernest, a foundry labourer, married 28 year old Ethel Francis Holland, a housekeeper, born 1878, Somersham, Suffolk – daughter of Thomas Holland, an agricultural labourer for a pork farmer, and the late Caroline Holland (nee Fulcher), of Main Road, Somersham.
Ethel and Ernest had two sons:
Wilfred Albert Mann, born in August 1907, Ipswich and died on the 14th September 1907, Ipswich, aged 1 month and buried in Section S, Ipswich Old Cemetery.
Ronald Albert Mann, born June 1912, Saxmundham, Suffolk.
Soldiers’ Effects to Ethel Frances Mann – widow.
Evening Star – Monday, 25th September 1893 – FIREWORKS – On Monday, 25th September at the Ipswich Police Court, Ernest Mann, 14, of Foxhall Road, Ernest Newman, 15, of Kemball Street; William Watts, 15, of Kemball Street; and Herbert Pharaoh, 14, of Crab Street, were summoned before the Mayor of Ipswich, Mr. Roderick Donald Fraser, Esq., Richard Maplestone Miller, Esq., Colonel John Henry Josselyn, Samuel Richard Anness, Esq., and Dr. William Partridge Mills, charged with letting off fireworks in Kemball Street. The boys all pleaded guilty. An old man named Matthews said he saw the boys firing squibs in the street, and some found their way into his home. The Mayor said they were determined to put a stop to this dangerous practice, and fined each boy 7s, 6d., including costs, or seven days’.
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