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Daniel Showers Mans

In memory of:

Private Daniel Showers Mans

March 20, 1919

Military Service


Service Number:

A/38358

Age:

39

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)

Division:

4th Coy. 8th Bn.

Additional Information


Son of Orin and Margaret Mans, of Paris, Ontario. Born at South Dumfries, Brant. Co. Ontario.

Commemorated on Page 539 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY
Surrey, United Kingdom

Grave Reference:

III. L. 15.

Location:

Brookwood is 30 miles from London (M3 to Bagshot and then A322). The main entrance to Brookwood Military Cemetery is on the A324 from the village of Pirbright. Brookwood Military Cemetery is owned by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the United Kingdom, covering approximately 37 acres. In 1917, an area of land in Brookwood Cemetery (originally The London Necropolis) was set aside for the burial of men and women of the forces of the Commonwealth and Americans, who had died, many of battle wounds, in the London district. This site was further extended to accommodate the Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War, and American, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, French and Polish plots containing the graves of Allied casualties. There are also German and Italian plots where prisoners of war lie buried.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Newspaper clipping– From the London Free Press March 1919. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Grave Marker
  • Attestation Paper– Attestation Paper 
Source: Library and Archives Canada
  • Attestation Paper– Attestation Paper 
Source: Library and Archives Canada: Soldiers of the First World War.

Daniel Showers Mans (or Maus) signed two sets of Attestation Papers.  The first on March 29, 1915 at Fort William Ontario, and the second on July 23, 1915 at Shorncliffe, which was a Canadian military base in Kent, England.  In the first his date of birth is given as August 28, 1879, in the second it is August 28, 1880.  In the second, in Question 1.  What is your name?  The surname has been corrected to MAUS.  The name MAUS appears on the grave marker and in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission records, while MANS appears in the Canadian First World War Book of Remembrance, and at the Canadian Virtual War Memorial.
  • Attestation Paper– Attestation Paper 
Source: Library and Archives Canada
  • Attestation Paper– Attestation Paper 
Source: Library and Archives Canada: Soldiers of the First World War.

Daniel Showers Mans (or Maus) signed two sets of Attestation Papers.  The first on March 29, 1915 at Fort William Ontario, and the second on July 23, 1915 at Shorncliffe, which was a Canadian military base in Kent, England.  In the first his date of birth is given as August 28, 1879, in the second it is August 28, 1880.  In the second, in Question 1.  What is your name?  The surname has been corrected to MAUS.  The name MAUS appears on the grave marker and in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission records, while MANS appears in the Canadian First World War Book of Remembrance, and at the Canadian Virtual War Memorial.

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