Manners, Albert Edward (No. 4314)

Manners, Albert Edward

Sergeant

No. 4314, 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) transferred to

No. 431801, Labour Corps

Died of disease on Wednesday 10 July 1918 (aged 40)

Buried:

Belfast City Cemetery (Public Ground Screen Wall H. 538)

Commemorated:

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

BIOGRAPHY

Sergeant Albert Edward Manners (No. 4314) from Newtownards Military Camp died from a perforated gastric ulcer at the Auxiliary Military Hospital, Newtownards on 10 July 1918 (aged 40).

He was born on 9 November 1880 at Burghfield, Berkshire, and he was a son of George Manners and Eliza Manners (nee Paine) of Bradfield, Berkshire.  It is recorded that he had a common-law wife, Ada Louise “Manners” of 35 Lower York Street, Northam, Southampton.