Notes
The Parish Council website (see References) is the source of the extra information and carries this biographical detail: 'Albert Henry Manship was born in Leicester in 1886. In 1891 when Albert was 5 he lived with his parents Robert (45) and Mary Jane Manship (41) and his three brothers (Robert 21. Joseph 7, and David 3) and one sister Alice aged 1. His father and his older brother Robert worked in the ‘Shoe Trade’.
In 1901 when Albert was 15 the family were living at 10 Bradgate Street, St Leonards, Leicestershire. Albert’s father was working as a ‘shoe riveter’ and Albert as a ‘shoe finisher’.
It is recorded in the 1911 census that Albert aged 25 had married Ellen Kirby aged 24 in October 1910 and they had a son James Frederick who was born 24th October 1911 in Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Alberts occupation is recorded as a Railway Porter and his postal address as Moor House, Harefield, Uxbridge.
Lance/Sergeant Albert Manship served in the 1st Leicestershire Battalion and was killed in action at the Battle of the Somme on the 26th September 1916, aged 30 and is buried in the A.I.F (Australian Imperial Force) Burial Ground, Flers in France.
We can only assume that sometime after 1911 he came to work in Great Coates, perhaps at the station.'