Name
John (Jack) Manning
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/09/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
4/7302
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CITADEL NEW MILITARY CEMETERY, FRICOURT
V. A. 9.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial, St Mary’s Church, Hitchin St Mary’s Church Memorial Book, Hitchin
Pre War
Born in Sandown Herts, he was resident in Hitchin and enlisted there.
Wartime Service
Jack was allocated Regimental Number 4/7302. He served with the 1st Battalion of the Regiment in France and was killed in action.
On the 27th September 1916 the Battalion had moved to the ‘Citadel’ in the Somme Sector, a hutted camp. They were out of the line and moving north to a quiet area. In the darkness a plane dropped several bombs. One struck the comer of a hut killing three men and wounding eighteen others. Fires had been lit to dry clothing that had been soaked in a heavy shower. The plane was apparently a frequent visitor to the camp.
He was buried in Plot 5 Row A Grave 9 in the Citadel Military Cemetery in Fricourt in France.
Biography
Acknowledgments
David C Baines, Jonty Wild
