Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

01/01/1918

Date of Discharge

03/02/1920

Place of Enlistment

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

08/07/1897

Place of Birth

Melbourne, Victoria

Address (at enlistment)

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Occupation

Soldier

Next of Kin

Samuel Mann (father), Malvern, Victoria

Final Rank

Lieutenant

Final Unit

1 Field Company Engineers AIF

Mann entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon in February 1915 and graduated at the end of 1917 when he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in a Special Draft of RMC graduates which arrived in England in April 1918. He served in France from September 1918 until the end of the war with the 1st Field Company Engineers. He went to Sydney University after the war and graduated as a Bachelor in Engineering, becoming the first RMC cadet to gain a university degree. He also served in World War 2 rising to the rank of Brigadier with the 9th Division Engineers and was awarded the Companion of the Distinguished Service Order for his work in the defence of Tobruk.

Description - height 5 feet 6 inches, weight 126 pounds, chest 37 inches, Congregationalist.

Colonel J.E. Lee, 'Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-1946', 1952
Chester Wilmot, 'Tobruk 1941', 1944 (p.138n)
The Duntroon Society Newsletter 2/2010
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)