George Edward Mann, (1880-23/8/1917). "he nobly fell"

MILITARY SERVICE.

SECOND CANTERBURY BOARD

SITTING AT CHRISTCHURCH

The Second Canterbury Military Service Board held a sitting at Christchurch yesterday; present —Messrs J. S. Evans, S.M. (chairman), E. C. Studholme and J. D. Million. Captain Rillington represented the military authorities.

DISMISSED

Fred Searle (Russell’s Flat) appealed on behalf of an employee, George Edward Mann, aged thirty-seven, single. Mann did not appeal on his own behalf.

Appellant stated that Mann was one of six brothers, none of whom were serving. He could not replace him, and his calling up would mean less grain, and would entail the giving up of milking. In reply to the chairman Searle said that he had three brothers and seven sisters. One brother, in the Second Division, was managing an estate; another, a stockman, had been called up and rejected; and the third had just married and taken up land.

The appeal was dismissed.  -Lyttelton Times, 22/6/1917.

I know nothing further about George Mann, except the date and general place of his death.  He does not feature on one of my go-to sites, the Online Cenotaph.  If I could find what unit he was placed in I could report what occurred on the day he died, having referred to its Official History.

I hope he is remembered by his family in Canterbury.

Kowai Pass cemetery.