Charles Manning
Service no. 14238
Private, Northamptonshire Regiment, 1st Battalion
Killed in action on 9 May 1915, aged 21
Born in Clapham, Surrey; enlisted in Weymouth, Dorset
CWGC: "Son of C. P. and Lucy Agnes Manning, of 36, Torrens Rd., Brixton Hill, London."
Remembered at Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Charles Manning lived at 622 Wandsworth Road, Clapham with his parents and four siblings. His father, Southwark-born Charles P. Manning, 44, was a coffee house keeper, and his mother Lucy A. Manning, 43, born in the Strand, London, was "assisting in the business". The children on the census return were:
Charles G. A. Manning, 16, a shop assistant in a cycle and incandescant lamp shop
Dorothy V. A. Manning, 16, a waitress in a coffee shop (and possibly Charles's twin)
Lucy M. Manning, 14
Philip J. Manning, 8
Ida M. Manning, 6
All the children were born in Clapham.