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Memorial/grave details of Lt. Wilmsdorff Mansergh

Photo Citation of events from newspaper Record of memorial || Lieutenant Wilmsdorff George Mansergh was born in Castletownroche, County Cork in Ireland in 1881. He joined the 2nd Battalion Manchester Regiment. The is a citation to him in Manchester Cathedral. He went with the expeditionary forces to Le Harve in 1914. He died in Le Cateau on the 26th of August 1914. He died trying to protect another soldier in a shallow trench by pulling the soldier underneath him. He was then killed when a shell blew up in front of him.