MANIFOLD, William Herbert
| Service Number: | Officer |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Second Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | Royal Field Artillery |
| Born: | Croydon, Victoria, Australia, 1890 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Greenvale School, Geelong Grammar School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed In Action, Baillieul sur Bethoult, east of Arras France, 26 April 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Roclincourt Valley Cemetery Plot I, Row C, Grave 2 |
| Memorials: | MCC Roll of Honour 1914 - 1918 - Melbourne Cricket Club |
World War 1 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Second Lieutenant, Officer, Royal Field Artillery, Served with 15th Battery 36th Brigade Royal Field Artillery, British Army |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Daryl Jones
Son of William Thomson Alice Mary MANIFOLD, of Purrumbete. Weerite, Victoria, Australia.
Born in 1890, at Croydon, near Camperdown. Educated at Greenvale School before going to Geelong
Grammar School – cox of First Crew, First XI, First XVIII, Cadet Corps, Athletics Team, Prefect. Member
of the Camperdown Polo Team and Royal Melbourne Golf Club. Went to England to enlist in 1915.
While serving in France with the 36th Brigade, RFA, he and three others were killed instantaneously on
April 28, 1917, at Baillieul sur Bethoult, east of Arras, when a shell landed in the Mess. They were buried
at the Roclincourt Valley Cemetery. By the terms of his Will, the Bertie Manifold Scholarship was
endowed to assist Old Geelong Grammarians in sending sons to the School. A stained glass window in
the Chapel at Corio commemorates his life.