Albert MANKTELOW

MANKTELOW, Albert

Service Number: 1702
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 56th Infantry Battalion
Born: High Street, Lamberhurst, Kent, England., date not yet discovered
Home Town: West Wyalong, Bland, New South Wales
Schooling: Lamberhurst School.
Occupation: Farmer and gardener by trade.
Died: Killed in Action, France, 1 November 1916, age not yet discovered
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)
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World War 1 Service

14 Apr 1916: Involvement Private, 1702, 56th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: ''
14 Apr 1916: Embarked Private, 1702, 56th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Sydney

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

He was 37 and the son of William and Ann Manktelow; brother of John Manktelow of Riverside House, Lamberhurst; and brother of  Rifleman Frederick Manktelow*  who also fell.

He emigrated to Australia aged 31 years 6 months.

He enlisted in West Wyalong, New South Wales, Australia.


*Frederick 
Service Number 43688, 13th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Killed in action 16th August 1917. Aged 33. Born Lamberhurst, enlisted Woolwich.He left a widow, Matilda Scott Manktelow, of 113, Queen's Rd., Tunbridge Wells, Kent.No known grave. Commemorated on TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 138 to 140 and 162 to 162A and 163A.

They were sons of William and Ann Manktelow, of Riverside House, Lamberhurst. The brothers are commemorated on the Lamberhurst village war memorial on School Hill, at Lamberhurst in Kent which stands at the side of the road. it bears the inscriptions for both wars and until recently no names at all. The Memorial Cross was erected on 4th January 1920. It was placed on the bank opposite the school where so many of the fallen had spent their boyhood days, Albert being one of them.
 

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