Agnes Grieg Mann

Military Information

  • Date of enlistment:
  • Place of enlistment:
  • Service no:
  • Rank: Staff Nurse
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  • Regiment/Service: H.M.H.S. Salta
  • Unit/Ship: Queen Alexandria's Imperial Military Nursing Service
  • Place of Death: English Channel
  • Age at Death: 25
  • Date of Death: 10.04.1917
  • Burial Country: France
  • Cemetery: Ste Marie Cemetery
  • Grave/Mem Ref no: Div.62.I.

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 1892
  • Place of Birth:
  • Address: 17 Clepington St, Dundee
  • Occupation:
  • Mother:

    Christina A. Mann

  • Father:

    John Mill Mann, 2 Kirk Entry, Dundee

  • Siblings:

    John Barrie Findlay Mann

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More about Agnes Grieg Mann

Agnes G Mann was the daughter of Mr John Mill Mann and Mrs Christina A Mann of 17 Clepington Street, Dundee and the sister of John B F Mann. She joined the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service in the early days of the war and nursed at Kraguievatz in Serbia between 1 Apr 15 to 1 Jun 16. H.M.H.S. Salta  was chartered by the Admiralty in 1915 and converted into a Hospital Ship. On 10 April 1917 the Salta was returning to Le Havre from Southampton to pick up wounded soldiers. At 11:43 she struck a mine laid by German Submarine UC-26, 1 mile North of the entrance to the dam half a mile North of Whistle Buoy, Le Havre. A huge explosion smashed the hull near the stern and water flooded in and she sank in less than 10 minutes. Of the 205 passengers and crew, 9 Nurses, 42 Royal Army Medical Corps staff and 79 ships crew drowned.  Her body was recovered and she is buried in the St Marie Cemetery, Le Havre, grave reference Division 62.1 and her name is on the Kirriemuir War Memorial.

The British Patrol Ship, H.M.S. P-26 attempted to come along side the Salta to assist, but she also struck a mine and sank.

Agnes was the sister of John Barrie Findlay Mann, 3rd Mate of the S.S. Queen Eugenie who also died at sea when his ship was torpedoed and sunk 25 March 1917 by UC-67.

 

Information supplied by Gary Thomson.

Further information supplied by Iain Stewart and Iain Birnie

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