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First World War memorialsAlfred Mann - Essex County Constabulary. Born at Raydon in Suffolk, Alfred Mann was variously employed in the grocery trade, as a labourer and as a groom before he chose, at the age of 20, to join the Essex County Constabulary on 4th May 1897. A liking for law and order may have been instilled in him by his father William, who was a farm bailiff. Alfred stood 5ft 11in at the time of enrolment, and he served at Romford and Grays before joining the Rainham station in December 1899. While serving there he married 17-year-old Miriam Raven, the daughter of labourer George Raven. Miriam lived in Grays and they married at her local church, St Peter and St Paul, on 8th September 1900. Alfred remained at Rainham until 24th July 1902, when he moved on to Collier Row and then High Easter, where he was to see out the remaining eight years of his service, which ended on 31 July 1915 when he went to Chelmsford to enlist. He had seen barely two months service in France in the Mounted Branch of the Military Police Corps before he was killed on 28th September 1915. At the time he was asleep with his comrades in the cellar of a building when a shell burst close by and demolished the building. If Lance Corporal P/1945 Mann’s body was ever recovered from the ruins it was subsequently lost, for he is commemorated on panel 137 of the Loos Memorial to the Missing, Pas de Calais in France. Police Constable 406. Serial Number 2299. September 21, 2004 - Article updated with additional information compiled by Mr. Adrian Jones. Additional information taken mainly from the Essex County Chronicle and Essex Weekly News.
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