Manley*, John Hunter

MANLEY,

JOHN HUNTER

BORN 23 MAY 1890

John Hunter Manley was born

in Kasauli, Bengal, India on 23 May 1890, son of Leonard Richard Manley (b 1855 in Wrexham, Denbighshire ) and Grace Honoria Manley (née Hunter, b 1868 in Amballa, India).

Leonard and Grace were married in Rawalpindi, Bengal on 12 October 1887. Leonard was with the Bengal Commissariat Department but died on 26 July 1897 in Malakand, in Pakistan.

The 1901 census shows John was a scholar, aged 10, at Christs Hospital in Hertford, in the parish of St John and All Saints. He joined the School on 17 September 1906, aged 16 and left in July 1907. His guardian whilst at school was James G Holmes and he boarded with him at Oldbury House, St Michael’s Road.

JG Holmes was second master and the founder of the first Prep School.

By 1911, then 20, he is shown as a Pupil on Railway, living with his Aunt Lucy Honoria Denison in Limehouse, London. His mother, Grace Manley (widow), was then living at Bright Side, Hillside Road, Heswall, Cheshire.

John Hunter Manley served as a Captain in the India Army Reserve of Officers, attached to 59th Scinde Rifles (Frontier Force). He was gazetted on 16 April 1915 and again on 24 July 1917.

He died in Mesopotamia on 9 January 1917, aged 26, and is buried at the Amara War Cemetery, Southern Iraq, (Grave Reference XXVIII A 8).

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1915 Cadet Corps - 186 boys

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