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MANTON, Harold Charles
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 9319 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 August 1915, Melbourne, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Army Ordnance Corps AIF |
| Born: | Windsor, Victoria, Australia, 1885 |
| Home Town: | Armadale, Stonnington, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Toorak Grammar School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Accountant |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 2 May 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
Camon Communal Cemetery Grave 9, Camon Communal Cemetery, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Armadale St. Albans Church Honour Roll, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Melbourne Cricket Club Roll of Honour 1914 - 1918 |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 3 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 9319, 4th Field Artillery Brigade, Melbourne, Vic. | |
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| 18 Nov 1915: | Involvement Driver, 9319, 4th Field Artillery Brigade, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Nov 1915: | Embarked Driver, 9319, 4th Field Artillery Brigade, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne | |
| 15 Jun 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Driver, 24th Field Artillery (Howitzer) Brigade, France | |
| 14 Feb 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Corporal, Army Ordnance Corps AIF, France | |
| 2 May 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 9319, Army Ordnance Corps AIF, Merris (France), --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 9319 awm_unit: Australian Army Ordnance Corps awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1918-05-02 | |
| 2 May 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 9319, Army Ordnance Corps AIF, Killed in action when the unit's billets in Camon, France sustained a direct hit from German artillery. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Daryl Jones
Son of Arthur Henry and Ada Wells MANTON, of 645 High Street, Armadale, Victoria, Australia. Native of Melbourne, Victoria.
Details of Death
On 2nd May 1918 he and five others were sleeping in a schoolroom six miles behind the lines; when a long distance enemy shell penetrated their billet and killed them all. They were buried in a beautiful old French cemetery which is, and always will be, a recognised French civilian cemetery, at Camon, in the Somme Valley, about three miles east of the Amiens Cathedral.
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