Gordon Harry Manning Leading Aircraftman R/84990 Royal Canadian Air Force November 16, 1922 Sussex, Kings County, New Brunswick April 4, 1941 No. 15 RCAF Recruiting Centre, Moncton, NB Sussex, Kings County, New Brunswick 18 5 feet, 11 inches Fair Blue Light Brown Single Farm work Baptist Harry Edgar Manning (Father) October 15, 1941 18 Kirk Hill Cemetery, Sussex, New Brunswick Lot 128, Row 6, Grave 5

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Gordon Harry Manning was the son of Harry Edgar Manning and Ida Margaret Blanche (McQuinn) Manning (d. 1927), of Sussex, New Brunswick, and the brother of Windslow C Manning, George Breton Manning. Gordon played hockey and football in his youth. His Elementary and High School education was done in Sussex, New Brunswick from 1929-1940, and he worked in farming with his father for a year in 1940-1941. Once he had enlisted in the RCAF, he was assessed as hard working, serious, dependable, and a good industrious student. It was not he wanted to be a pilot and should succeed. He was taken on strength with the No. 1 Technical Training School (1 TTS) in St. Thomas, Ontario, on July 28, 1941, where he trained until August 20th. Tragically, Leading Aircraftman Gordon Harry Manning was killed in a motor vehicle accident in Moncton, New Brunswick on October 15, 1941, while on leave from the No. 5 Initial Training School (5 ITS) in Belleville, Ontario, where he had been stationed since August 21, 1941.