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Rifleman NORMAN GASCOIGNE MANNERS

Service Number: 44966
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Irish Rifles

13th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 18 August 1917

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BRANDHOEK NEW MILITARY CEMETERY NO.3

II. J. 11.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Jane Elizabeth Manners, of Muswell Hill Rd., London. Joined 19th County of London in Sept., 1914, transf. to Royal Irish Rifles, 1917.
  • Personal Inscription THAT GALLANT LIFE WAS NOT FOR THIS BRIEF WORLD ALONE
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Buried or commemorated at

BRANDHOEK NEW MILITARY CEMETERY NO.3
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 974
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