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The Argus Newspaper
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Bombardier Charles A. Mansbridge, of the R.G.A., the husband of Mrs. Mansbridge, 107 Winstanley-road, Wellingborough, has been awarded the French Croix de Guerre Medal for devotion to duty in the great retreat on March 23rd, for carrying messages from the trenches to the battery under heavy shell fire; and also for doing good work for the battery since he has been in France. He went to the Army General Headquarters near the Rhine on February 11th, when the Army Commander pinned the medal on his breast. The Prince of Wales gave the General the medal as the men marched up to have them pinned on. He enlisted in October 1915, and went to France on May 17th 1916. He has been through the Battle of the Somme, Arras, Ypres, Cambrai, and through the great retreat on the Somme in 1918. He has two other brothers serving, one in Italy and the other at Colchester, his other brother being discharged a fortnight ago. He was born at Stanwick, and before joining up was in the employ of Mr. Owen Parker, of Higham Ferrers. A brother-in-law, Pte. A. T. Ager, of the 1st Northants, late of Rushden, was reported killed on May 9th 1915, but his mother has not received any news as to how he died.
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