William Herbert MANIFOLD

MANIFOLD, William Herbert

Service Number: Officer
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Second Lieutenant
Last Unit: Royal Field Artillery
Born: Croydon, Victoria, Australia, 1890
Home Town: Not yet discovered
Schooling: Greenvale School, Geelong Grammar School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Killed In Action, Baillieul sur Bethoult, east of Arras France, 26 April 1917
Cemetery: Roclincourt Valley Cemetery
Plot I, Row C, Grave 2
Memorials: Camperdown War Memorial, MCC Roll of Honour 1914 - 1918 - Melbourne Cricket Club
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World War 1 Service

Date unknown: Involvement Second Lieutenant, Officer, Royal Field Artillery, Served with 15th Battery 36th Brigade Royal Field Artillery, British Army

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Biography contributed by Daryl Jones

Son of William Thomson Alice Mary MANIFOLD, of Purrumbete. Weerite, Victoria, Australia.

Born in 1890, at Croydon, near Camperdown. Educated at Greenvale School before going to Geelong
Grammar School – cox of First Crew, First XI, First XVIII, Cadet Corps, Athletics Team, Prefect. Member
of the Camperdown Polo Team and Royal Melbourne Golf Club. Went to England to enlist in 1915.
While serving in France with the 36th Brigade, RFA, he and three others were killed instantaneously on
April 28, 1917, at Baillieul sur Bethoult, east of Arras, when a shell landed in the Mess. They were buried
at the Roclincourt Valley Cemetery. By the terms of his Will, the Bertie Manifold Scholarship was
endowed to assist Old Geelong Grammarians in sending sons to the School. A stained glass window in
the Chapel at Corio commemorates his life.

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