Historic Records Men of 1914

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 husabnd of Louise Mantell of 171 Crescent Road, Brentwood, Essex.