Private Albert MANNING
4th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment 4344, 201103
Albert was born in Yorkshire in the summer of 1887, the son of John Manning, an agricultural labourer from a long-established family in Spratton, and his wife Elizabeth. Albert lived in Yew Tree Lane with his wife, Mary, and children Reginald and Doreath, who were baptised together at Spratton Church in October 1911. He was employed as a bricklayer’s labourer. His older brother, George, was killed in action in the First World War.
He enrolled as a private with the Territorial Force on 2 June 1915 aged 28 and was assigned to the Northamptonshire Regiment, but did not go overseas. On 27 December 1915 he was temporally released to work in the coalmine of Messrs Grayson, Lowood and Co Ltd, Deepcar, Sheffield. His service record includes a list of the military kit he was required to return. He was subsequently reassigned to a “light job” for the Admiralty at Cranwell, on doctor’s advice. On 14 July 1917 he was transferred back to the Territorial Force Reserve for civil employment as a munition worker, and finally demobilised on 19 February 1919. As he did not go overseas he was not entitled to the campaign medals.
It is possible that he married in 1909 and died in Northampton in September1959, aged 72.
The house in Yew Tree Lane where Albert and Mary Manning lived, being rethatched after the First World War
The house in Yew Tree Lane where Albert and Mary Manning lived, being rethatched after the First World War
EXPLORE SECTIONS
MEN WHO SERVED
- Private Charles Herbert AUSTIN (known as Herbert)
- Corporal Frank AUSTIN
- Lance Corporal James William AUSTIN
- Private John Samuel AUSTIN
- Sergeant William Henry AUSTIN
- Sergeant Bertie Henry BALDERSON
- Corporal Frederick Charles BALDERSON MM
- Lance Corporal Robert Samuel BALDERSON
- Private George William BUCKBY (known as William)
- Private Henry Andrew BUCKBY
- Richard Henry Horne BUCKBY
- Transport Sergeant Thomas BUCKBY MM
- Company Quartermaster Sergeant William Gander BUCKBY
- William Archibald COPSON (known as Archibald)
- Sapper Ebenezer COPSON
- Private Ernest Edward COPSON
- Pioneer Henry Owman COPSON (known as Harry)
- Private James COPSON
- Private John William COPSON
- Private Joseph COPSON
- Private Arthur Sidney GOODEN (known as Sidney)
- Private Hugh Henry GOODEN
- Sergeant Joseph Eric GOODEN (known as Eric)
- Private Arthur Thomas HAYTER
- Driver Frank Leonard HAYTER
- Private Harold Herbert HAYTER
- Lance Corporal John Charles HAYTER DCM (known as Jack)
- Private Walter Ernest HAYTER
- Ordinary Seaman Arthur Charles HORNE
- Private John William HORNE (known as William)
- Lance Corporal Lewis HORNE
- Private Thomas HORNE
- Driver John Henry LEESON
- Corporal Joseph Henry LEESON (known as Harry)
- Thomas Baden Powell LEESON (known as ‘Bard’)
- Private Albert MANNING
- Corporal Amos MANNING
- Private Arthur Cecil MANNING
- Private George MANNING
- Sergeant George William MANNING
- Sapper Henry Stanley MANNING (known as Stanley)
- Private John Thomas MANNING
- Private John William MANNING
- Air Mechanic Nathaniel MANNING
- Driver/Saddler Samuel MANNING
- Gunner George Albert MARTIN
- Private Joseph MARTIN
- Private Thomas Henry MARTIN (known as Harry)
- Private Thomas Walter MARTIN (known as Walter)
- Pioneer Walter Ernest MARTIN
- Sergeant William Higgs MARTIN, DCM
- Private Arthur Walter PAGE
- Private Francis Samuel PAGE (known as Sam)
- Private Frank PAGE
- Private Stephen PAGE
- Lieutenant George REEVE MC MM
- Private Richard Henry REEVE (known as Harry)
- Private Samuel REEVE
- Private Sidney Philip REEVE
- Private Frederick Thomas RICHARDSON
- Private John William RICHARDSON
- Private Percy John Partridge RICHARDSON
- Private Abraham Bert SMITH
- Private Alfred SMITH
- Private Frank SMITH 46648
- Private John Samuel SMITH
- Private John William SMITH (6942)
- Private John William (William John) SMITH (8964)
- Private Charles Walter WADHAMS
- Private John Edward WADHAMS
- Private Thomas Edwin WADHAMS
- Private William WADHAMS