Memorial Cottages, Thelveton

Image: © Adrian S Pye Taken: 17 Mar 2019

The three cottages were built as a permanent memorial to Lieut. Charles Julian Mann. Son of Sir Edward Mann, Bt., Thelveton Hall, Scole, born 1892. On leaving school he matriculated, and spent three years at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was in the College Fifteen and Captain of the Cricket Eleven. At the outbreak of the war he obtained his commission from Cambridge, and was posted to the 13th Reserve Regiment of Cavalry, and first went on active service in the winter of 1915, when he joined the 14th Hussars in Mesopotamia and took part in the Kut Relief Force. After the fall of that town he had a severe attack of fever and dysentery, and was invalided home. In December 1917 he was transferred to the Hussars, and joined the regiment on active service in France. He was in the cavalry division which held-up the Germans in their March offensive, and was twice wounded. He took part in much cavalry work during the British offensive which began in July, and was killed in action on October 3rd. In the porch of each of the cottages is a memorial plaque. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6089386 In the pediment of the middle cottage on a bronze triangular plaque are written these words: "In loving memory of / Lieut Charles Julian Mann / 20th Hussars / Served in Mesopotamia and France / Fell in action at Prescelles, Oct 3rd 1918 / Aged 26" Followed by Rev.XXI.VII Verse.

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