Ramsey Walter Mantripp

A Private with 1st Bn., Ramsey died on 7th of May 1915 at the age of 37. 

Ramsey was born at Lowestoft in 1876, a son of Edmund and Elizabeth Mantripp. Note that in some records his first name is given as Ramsey, or Ramey, and in others as Raymond. In 1881 his family lived at 22 North Raglan Street, Lowestoft. By 1891 they were living at 23 Jacob's Street. 

On 11 April 1897 Ramsey married Ethel Eva Colby at Saint Margaret's Church, Lowestoft. Ramsey was a moulder and they both lived at 98 Seago Street. In 1901 they lived at 25 Cathcart Street and Ramsey worked as a moulder. By 1911 they were living at 81 Seago Street, Lowestoft, and Ramsey worked as an iron moulder for Brooke general engineers. Ethel subsequently married Frederick Woolger and lived at 3 Mill Road, Lowestoft. 

Ramsey volunteered and joined the Army at Lowestoft. He enlisted in the Suffolk Regiment. He arrived in France on 6 March 1915 to join the 1st Battalion. 

We do not know exactly when, or how, Ramsey was wounded, but based on the activities of the 1st Battalion it must have been at Ypres. He died of wounds at 13 General Hospital, Boulogne. 

Note that Ramsey is remembered on the war memorials at Saint Margaret's and Saint John's Churches, as well as the Town memorial book. Also, in the Town memorial book, there is an entry for E E Woolger that gives Ramsey's service number and regiment: this appears to be an error combining Ethel's initials, and later surname, and Ramsey's military details (there was no E E Woolger). 

His brother, Charles, died in 1917 whilst serving with the Labour Corps.