1st Battalion, Australian Infantry (Australian Army)
Date Of Birth:
27/12/1887
Died:
03/10/1917 (Killed in Action)
Age:
29
Summary
Leslie Ellis Mann was the son of Henry and Margaret Mann. He was born on 27th December 1887 in Drumlamph, Magherafelt. He was one of 11 known children. The family lived in Drumlamph, Castledawson. Henry Mann was a Poor Rate Collector, Insurance agent and Farmer. Leslie emigrated to Australia about 1915. Prior to enlistment, he worked as a farmer. He gave his address as c/o Rev H P Thomas, The Vicarage, Port Macquarie, New South Wales. He enlisted on 17th April 1916 in Cootamundra, New South Wales. Private Leslie Mann was serving with the 1st Battalion of the Australian Infantry when he was killed in action in Belgium on 3rd October 1917. He was 29 years old.
Further Information
Leslie Mann was the son of Henry and Margaret Mann. Henry Church Mann married Margaret A Hanson Ellis on 12th November 1872 in Ballymoney.
Leslie Ellis Mann was born on 27th December 1887 in Drumlamph, Magherafelt. He was one of 11 known children.
Family: Henry Church Mann, Margaret A Hanson Mann, Mary Mann (born 18th January 1874), Fanny J Mann (born 12th November 1875), Thomasina Ena Church Mann (born 1st January 1878), Margaret H Mann (born 2nd November 1881), Leslie Mann (born 30th December 1883, died young?), Henry S Warren Mann (born 23rd January 1886), Leslie Ellis Mann (born 27th December 1887), John Hercules Mann (born 1st November 1889), Nora Gertrude Mann (born 17th November 1891), Ruby Eveline Mann (born 3rd November 1893), Katherine Maud Mann (born about 1896).
The 1901 census lists Leslie Ellis as age 13 living with the family at house 3 in Drumlamph, Rocktown, County Londonderry. Henry Mann was a Poor Rate Collector, Insurance agent and Farmer. Leslie was still at school.
There was a Henry Mann who died in Belfast on 11th May 1908, aged 59.
The 1911 census lists Leslie Ellis as age 23 living with the family at house 58 in Drumlamph, Rocktown. Leslie was a farmer. His mother was a widow.
Leslie emigrated to Australia about 1915.
Prior to enlistment, he worked as a farmer. He gave his address as c/o Rev H P Thomas, The Vicarage, Port Macquarie, New South Wales.
Leslie Mann enlisted on 17th April 1916 in Cootamundra, New South Wales. He listed his mother Mrs M H Mann as his mother, who was by then living in Victoria Terrace, Portstewart, County Derry, Ireland.
Private Leslie Mann’s unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A40 Ceramic on 7 October 1916. He arrived in Plymouth on 21st November.
His unit left Folkestone, England on 11th April 1917. He arrived on the front on 2nd May 1915.
Private Leslie Mann was serving with the 1st Battalion of the Australian Infantry when he was killed in action in Belgium on 3rd October 1917. He was 29 years old.
Private Leslie Ellis Mann has no known grave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres, Belgium.
Unusually, Leslie Mann seemed to have taken out life insurance.
