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Calvaire (Essex) Military Cemetery, Belgium Calvaire (Essex) Military Cemetery, Belgium
First Name: Samuel George Last Name: MANSELL
Date of Death: 29/12/1914 Lived/Born In: Plaistow
Rank: Private Unit: Essex2
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Age-19

178, Grange Road, Plaistow

Calvaire (Essex) Military Cemetery, Belgium

 

On 25th December, 1914, the 2nd Essex battalion of 12 Brigade, 4th Division moved into trenches near Le Touquet, a small hamlet near Ploegsteert, in Belgium. At 2pm on 29th December, the day on which Samuel Mansell was killed, a shell hit the house in which the machine-gun team were sheltering, killing three men and wounding another five.

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