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| Name | MANSBRIDGE William Henry |
|---|---|
| Regiment (s) | HEIC 3rd Madras European Regt 65th Regiment 14th Regt |
| Regiment Number (s) | 1177 HEIC, 14th 1459 |
| Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation | c March 1857/c22 years/ HEIC place unknown 1st March 1860/25 years/Liverpool England Shoemaker |
| Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars | 5’6 ¼ ”, fresh, hazel, light brown (1860) |
| Overseas Service/Duration | India 2 years 8 months (HEIC) Returned from India to England via Colombo on the ‘Great Tasmania” embarked 9th November 1859 India 2 years 8 months New Zealand-5 years 319 days Australia (Tasmania & Western Australia) 3 years 251 days India 6 years 167 days |
| Length of Service | 22 years 235 days Private/20th June 1859/ India |
| Rank/Date/Place of Discharge | Pay Master Sergeant/21st March 1885/ Bombay, East Indies |
| Campaign Medals | Indian Mutiny medal clasp Central India 1857-1859 New Zealand War medal (1861-1866) Action at Rangiriri 20th November 1863 “special instances of gallant conduct.” 2nd Afghan War medal |
| Intended Residence at Discharge | |
| Pension Districts | |
| Pension Paid | 2/3 per diem |
| Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland | |
| Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia | Massilia 7th April 1885 to Albany Western Australia Arr 17th April 1885 Lubra from Albany to Perth for Mrs Mansbridge and family |
| Date/Place of Birth | 1835 Marylebone, London |
| Date/Place of Baptism | |
| Father Date/Place of Birth | |
| Mother Date/Place of Birth Marriage | |
| Siblings | |
| 1st Wife Date of Birth or Baptism | GRIFFIN Margaret (daughter of EPG Owen Griffin and Annie Parry, Dudbrook) B Dublin Ireland |
| Date/Place of Marriage | 4th November 1868 Fremantle Western Australia |
| Children by 1st Wife | Annie Louise b 8th October 1869 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia D 1875 Bradford Yorkshire England William Owen b 1872 Cheshire, England M Jones Annie Caroline 24th June 1897 Lawlers, East Murchison, Western Australia D 13th May 1958 Claremont, Western Australia Maud Blanche b 5th October 1873 Aldershot, England BP 7th March 1881 Nowshera, Bengal, India M Cutten Alfred Charles 1st June 1893 Perth Western Australia D Unknown Tom Franklin b 18th September 1878 Curragh Ireland Bp 7th March 1881 Nowshera, Bengal, India M Lundy Isabel Margaret 10th June 1903 Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa D 3rd June 1918 Killed in action in France WW1 Bur Villers Bretonneax France Margaret Henrietta b 1881 Nowshera D 15th November 1882 Nowshera, Bengal, India Violet Emily Maria 4 March 1886 Perth, Western Australia D 22nd March 1948 Maylands, Western Australia Ida Marion b 30th November 1887 Perth, Western Australia D 4th July 1891 age 4 years Perth, Western Australia |
| Father of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth | GRIFFEN Owen |
| Mother of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth Marriage | PARRY Annie |
| Land Grants Western Australia | None |
| Occupation after Arrival | 26th September 1886 Sergeant Mansbridge to take charge of detachment of Enrolled Guard, present at disbandment 1887 Office Keeper /Caretaker Government Office appointed January 1889, salary £108-£120 pa. Mrs Mansbridge was a housekeeper at £40 per annum. (Blue Book 1895) |
| Newspaper Articles | Sunday Times 3rd May 1914 page 6 Obituary WH Mansbridge The Albany Mail and King George’s Sound Advertiser Tuesday 14th April 1885 page 2 Passenger list Massillia The Inquirer and Commercial News Wednesday 6th April 1887 page 5 Disbandment Enrolled Guard The Daily News 10th January 1889 page 2 Appointment Caretaker Western Mail Saturday 8th March 1902 page 43 Obituary Margaret Mansbridge East Murchison News Saturday 15th March 1902 page 4 Detailed Obit Margaret The West Australian Thursday 31st July 1902 retiremant of WH Mansbridge W.A. Record Saturday 13th October 1917 page 11 Obituary Mary Mansbridge The West Australian 24th March 1948 page 1 Death notices Violet Mary Mansbridge |
| Departure from Western Australia | Not Applicable |
| Date/Place of Death/Burial | 25th April 1914 Leederville, Western Australia Bur Karrakatta Cemetery |
| Date/Place of Death/Burial Wife | 26th February 1902 Leederville, Western Australia Bur Karrakatta Cemetery Perth, Western Australia |
| 2nd Wife | FEGAN Mary 1906 Perth Western Australia D c3rd October 1917 Beverley, Western Australia |
| Further Information | Discharge: 1. Claimed his discharge when the HEIC was disbanded. 2. Termination of his second term of limited engagement. During his service as a soldier in Australia William Henry Mansbridge was part of the company sent to Western Australia when re-enforcements were needed around the time of the arrival of the Hougoumont where he met and married Margaret Griffin the daughter of EPG Owen Griffin. On 24th April 1885, shortly after his arrival in Western Australia, WH Mansbridge applied to the Colonial Secretary for employment his address being C/- of Warder Griffin, Fremantle. He was a married man with 3 children and was a former paymaster sergeant with the2/14 regiment. (SROWA Cons 527/1885/1647) He was appointed in charge of the Perth detachment of the Enrolled Guard on 26th September 1886. On the 10th June 1887, after the disbandment of the Enrolled Guard, WH Mansbridge applied to the Colonial Secretary for employment as a manager or office keeper. He stated he was 52 years of age married with 4 children and had formerly been a Staff Sergeant and later a Sergeant with the Enrolled Guard. He was reported as being appointed office manager of the Government Offices from January 1889 until 1906, his wife Margaret was appointed as a housekeeper at the same time. On retirement his retiring allowance was £41 pound 6 shillings and 6 pence (The West Australian 28th June 1906 page 3.) His eldest son William Owen Mansbridge was one of 6 boys who found an albatross on the beach north of Fremantle with a tag around its neck which led to a search of the Crozet islands for the relief of ship wrecked sailors. Unfortunately although during the search of the islands evidence of the missing men was found but they had disappeared without a trace. The search attracted worldwide interest at the time. As a young man William was employed by the post and telegraph department and later by the mining department where he became the mining registrar, acting warden, acting magistrate, paymaster in towns throughout the Western Australian goldfields. As commanding officer of the Goldfields Infantry Battalion Major Mansbridge enlisted in WW1 and was present at Gallipoli where he was awarded the DSO and as he was severely wounded returned to Australia in 1916. While convalescing at the Base Hospital in Fremantle he was instrumental in the foundation of the Returned Soldiers League which is still in evidence today. The, by now, Lieutenant Colonel Mansbridge returned to combat as commanding officer of the 44th battalion and was gassed at Messines. He returned to Australia in 1919. He was appointed Resident Magistrate at Broome in 1920 and filled this role in various places until his retirement on 1941. The second son Thomas Franklin was employed by the Post and Telegraph department until he enlisted in the Boer War. He served with Thorneycroft’s Mounted infantry as a trooper for eleven months receiving the Queen’s medal with clasps for Tugela Heights, the Relief of Ladysmith , Laing’s Nek and Belfast. After the war he remained in South Africa working for the telephone department. He married Isabel Margaret Lundy of 10th June 1902 at Johannesburg. He returned to Western Australia on the outbreak of World War 1 and enlisted in the 44th Battalion. He was killed in action of 3rd June 1918 and was buried at the Villers Bretonneux Cemetery. Maud Blanche married Alfred Cutten in 1893 and the couple had two children Alfred George Mansbridge Cutten 1894-1975 and Charles Henry 1901 but then Maud disappears. Her husband Alfred left her £737pounds 12 shillings and 3 pence in his will when he died in 1908. A notice in the Daily News on 8th June 1912 seeks her whereabouts but she is not mentioned anywhere else. Violet Emily Maria Mansbridge entered the Sacred Heart Convent and at the time of her death was known as Mother St. Francis. |