Detail victim

Name MANGIN
Initials HRF
First name HENRY REUBEN FREDERICK
Place of birth Beaumaris
Country Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom
Last residence Montreal
Family Eldest Son of Frances A. Mangin, of 16, Sussex Avenue, Montreal, and Harry Mangin A.P. of Co Dublin, Ireand; two brothers: John and Frank.
Profession Salesman
Extra info one of the original P.P.C.L.I.

Member of the Osborn Cricket Club of Montreal and a hard-hitting batsman

Place & date of enlistment 20 August 1914, Ottawa
Service number 1171
Rank Private
Regiment and unit Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry
Division - Brigade 7th Brigade
Army - Corps - Division 3rd Canadian Division
National force C.E.F.
Other data related to military career Previously had served 2 years with the Duke of York's Hussars (Canadian Militia). To France December 1914; Frezenberg April-May 1915; rhuematism May 1915; influenza September 1915; absent without leave January 1916 (5 days Field Punishment Number 2)

Wounded 23 March; Railway Dugouts/Maple Copse, Zillebeke
Type of wounds Died of shell wounds in the left leg and a compund fracture in n°17 CCS. (War diary n°17 CCS: Died of gunshot wounds to the left thigh.)
Date of death 27 March 1916
Died at the age of 26
Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery V - D - 21A