Charles Manning

Charles G. A. 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.