Source: Earned the Military Medal for “Bravery in the Field” during the actions at the Somme September 1916.
Family Search: When Sergeant Frederick Ernest Manby was born on 25 February 1887, in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, his father, Herbert Ernest Welton Manby, was 25 and his mother, Fanny Nightingale, was 20. He married Nerissa Violet Elizabeth Strange on 19 July 1922, in Wayne, Michigan, United States. He immigrated to Vermont, United States in 1913 and lived in Highland Park, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1922 and Detroit Ward 8, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1915, at the age of 28, his occupation is listed as machinist in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. He died on 28 January 1973, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan, United States
01 Jan 1919, Wed ·Page 22.
This man joined the 33rd Battalion at Windsor, Ontario on January 11, 1915. He was then transferred to the 18th Battalion. Training in London, Ontario, he was then transported for training at West Sandling, Kent. He then transferred with the 18th Battalion to the Continent for active duty.
He was wounded twice during his service.
He earned the Military Medal and a Bar to his Military Medal. The Military Medal was for “bravery in the field” during the actions of this soldier at the Somme in the Fall of 1916.
For conspicuous gallantry and intelligent performance if his duty.
As a Battalion Sniper he took charge of a patrol and advanced about 400 yards in advance of a captured position, where he discovered several dugouts which he fearlessly bombed and cleared.
London Gazette 29854. 9/12/16.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 