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Name: | Eric Oswald Mansfield |
Sex: | Male |
Father: | Horace Rendall Mansfield (1863-1914) |
Mother: | Mary Annie Rose (1859-1905) |
Birth | 1893 | Church Gresley, Derbyshire |
Birth fact | 1893 (age 0) | 1893 Mar Qtr, Burton upon Trent, 6b/390 |
Death | 24 Aug 1918 (age 24-25) | Flanders, Belgium |
In Memory of Second Lieutenant E O MANSFIELD
8th Bn., King's Royal Rifle Corps
who died age 25 on 24 August 1918
Son of the late Horace Rendall Mansfield, ex-M.P. for Spalding, Lincs. Born Church Gresley, Burton-on-Trent.
Remembered with honour
LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
Commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
http://www.cwgc.org/cwgcinternet/certificate.aspx?casualty=145981
He entered the Science Faculty of the University of Birmingham on 7 October 1911 to read Engineering. His last entry in the Students Register is on 1 November 1913, when he began his third year Engineering course. He was then aged 20 and his address was given as Glenalmond, St Albans. He did not graduate.
http://www.firstworldwar.bham.ac.uk/memorial/ww1/m/mansfield.htm