Historic Records Men of 1914

Arrived overseas: 11 August 1914 Connection:  Connection: 2nd Middlesex Regiment football team photo, 1912. George Flatt's regimental number dates to late November or early December 1901 and he certainly saw service with the 3rd Middlesex Regiment during the Seocnd Anglo-Boer War, being awarded the QSA and KSA medals. By the time this photo of him was taken, he would have been approaching the end of his 12-year engagement and thus, to have arrived overseas in France on 11th August 1914 must have either re-engaged to complete 21 years' service with the regiment or opted for four years' service as a Section D Reservist. I suspect the former. He's probably the same 36-year-old out-of-work carman who appears on the 1921 census with his wife and three children, living at 28 Retreat Place, Hackney. George was awarded the Millitary Medal for Bravery in the Field in 1916, the awarded gazetted on the 11th October 1916 which suggests either a retrospective award for 1914, The Bat...

Arrived overseas: 11 August 1914. Connection: 2nd Middlesex Regiment football team photo, 1912. Herbert Thomas Mantell enlisted with the Middlesex Regiment as a career soldier on the 23rd October 1906, joining at Mill Hill. After training at the regimental depot, he was posted to the 2nd Battalion and remained with that battalion until October 1913 when he was transferred to the Army Reserve.  On the 5th August 1914, Herbert was mobilised, posted to the 1st Middlesex Regiment, and arrived with it in France on the 11th August. He remained with the 1st Battalion until killed in action on the 22nd October 1914, leaving behind a wife and three children aged five, two, and five months. Herbert has no known grave and is recorded on the Ploegsteert Memorial in Belgium. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission notes that he was the son of David and Caroline Annie Mantell of Plumstead, Kent, and the husband of Louise Mantell of 171 Crescent Road, Brentwood, Essex.