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15 December 1916: Pte Nicholas Joseph Mann

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Nicholas Mann was born on 8 June 1880 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, the son of a shoe maker and later cabinet maker, and former Colour Sergeant. He served in the South Africa Campaign, though by the 1911 Census he is recorded as a labourer.  On attestation on 4 Sept 1914, from surviving papers, we learn that he was 5ft 6in tall, with blue eyes...