2nd Lieutenant Mansfeldt Charles Nightingale Mills
Corps of the Royal Engineers, Tunnelling Service
Killed in Action
Date of Birth: 9th of February 1891
Place of Birth: Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Date of Death: 29th of December 1915, aged 24
Buried: Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres
Location: Nord, France
Cemetery/memorial reference: IX. D. 72.
Awarded the British War Medal, the Victory Medal, and the 1915 star
Mansfeldt was baptised on the 29th of March 1891 at St Edmund King and Martyr, Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire. He was the son of Mansfeldt Henry and Emily Frances Mills, of 34, Kingsnorth Gardens, Folkestone Kent.
In the 1901 census, Manfeldt is a pupil at The Grange, St Annes Road, Eastbourne, Sussex.
The link to Teignmouth is via the Malvern College notes;
Born: February 9th 1891. Son of Mansfeldt Henry and Emily Frances Mills, of 34, Kingsnorth Gardens, Folkestone Kent, and 8, Barnpark Terrace, Teignmouth, Devon.
Royal Engineers
Cap Badge
'He was by profession a mining engineer, and at the outbreak of the war was engaged in tin mines in Northern Nigeria. He then accepted a commission in the Royal Engineers. His Company Commander writes: "Speaking as Officer Commanding this Company, I do not think it would have been possible to have had a more capable and reliable fellow in every way. He will be very very difficult to replace. ' (Malvernian, Mar 1916).
2nd Lieutenant Mansfeldt Charles Nightingale Mills, Corps of the Royal Engineers, Commemorative Certificate
