Will Norton, as a Corporal in the NZ Rifle Brigade, spent his eighteenth birthday in the trenches of World War 1. He died in action 12th October 1917. While in England, he visited the Manning family home village of Elstow, the first decendant to return since Robert and Margaret emmigrated 40 years earlier.<br /><img alt="1918_NortonVisitElstow" src="pics/NortonVisitElstow.jpg"><br /><p>http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=MEX19180307.1.4
Marlborough Express, Volume LII, Issue 56, 7 March 1918, Page 4
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