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Name: MANNING, Arthur Patrick
Nee: son of Arthur Cornelius Manning
Birth Date: 18.3.1913 Nairobi
Death Date: 3.12.1996 - vehicle accident in Orange Free State
First Date: 1930
Profession: Clerk, Registration Division, Lands & Settlement Dept., in 1939, appointed 1935. Originally a Learner Clerk, Secretariat 1930. Registrar of Titles 1946
Area: Nairobi
Married: Cynthia - also killed in road accident 1996
Children: 2 sons
Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Staff 39, mini-Sitrep 10, Colonial, mini-SITREP XIV
War Service: Military service 1939-44, Capt.
School: Carn Brea House School, Bromley, Kent
General Information:
mini-Sitrep 10 - Pat was one of Col. Dunstan-Adams young officers in the Kenya Defence Force, and he had, when a Civil Servant in the Survey Dept., taken the opportunity of his leave in England, to show his keenness by securing attachment to a regular British infantry battalion to undergo training courses.
When the Regiment was formed in 1937 he had resigned from the KDF and it was no surprise when, before the first camp, he was commissioned as a 2Lt. and given command of No. 4 Platoon in No. 1 Company. ............... On the outbreak of mobilisation for WW2 he was posted to 5 KAR and I lost touch with him until we had returned to Nairobi at the end of hostilities, by when he was a law clerk on the staff of Shapley, Schwartz and Barret, and later with Daly and Figgis.
He did not resume service when our first battalion was re-formed but was much involved in the formation of the Old Comrades Ass. of the Regt. both in Nairobi and later of the S. African Branch. Pat served in the Kenya Police Reserve during the Mau Mau Emergency and at its conclusion decided to sell up his property in Limuru and emigrate to S. Africa. ........ A devout Christian and licensed lay-reader Pat, and Cynthia are survived by their two sons, one an ordained priest. His father had served in WW1 in the EAMR
mini-SITREP XIV - 2/Lt at Kenya Regiment first annual camp 1938 - photo
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 76).