Name
Edward Manning Oldring
1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/02/1919
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
8748
Pay Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD (HEATH LANE) CEMETERY
Q. 30
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Hemel Hempstead Town Memorial, St John the Evangelist Church Memorial, Boxmoor, Marlowes Baptist Church, Marlowes, St Francis of Assisi Memorial, Hammerfield, John Dickinson & Co Memorial, Apsley
Pre War
Edward Manning Oldring (known as Manning) was born in Hemel Hempstead in 1892, the son of George and Ellen Oldring and one of 9 children.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at 19 Glen View Road, Hammerfield, Hemel Hempstead where his father was a bricklayer's labourer.
He left school in 1905 and started work at John Dickinson & Co. By the 1911 Census the family had moved to No. 10 Glen View Gardens, Hammerfield, Hemel Hempstead and Edward was working as a Clerk in the Paper Mills. (Apsley Mills) for John Dickinson & Co,. where he remained in 1914 when war broke out. The company released a large number of men to join the military but Manning was initially not allowed to enlist as they needed to retain those in skilled or specialist jobs.
Wartime Service
He eventually volunteered in September 1917 and served in the Army Pay Corps with the rank of Corporal.
He survived the war but had not been demobilised when he fell ill. He contracted influenza (Spanish Flu) in February whilst at home in Hemel Hempstead and was admitted to West Herts Hospital, but developed bronchopneumonia/bronchitis and died on 21 February 1919. He is buried in Heath Lane Cemetery, Hemel Hempstead.
Additional Information
Although the record of his war medals have not been located, he would have been entitled to the British War Medal and Victory Medal. His father received a war gratuity of £9 5s and pay owing of £11 7s 4d. His mother received a pension of 7s 6d a week. His sweetheart Edith Wilkins remembered him in an "In Memoriam" notice the following year in the Hemel Hempstead Gazette. Brother to Hubert Oldring who died in 1915 and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France and also named on the Hemel Hempstead Memorial.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, www.dacorumheritage.org, www.hemelatwar.org,, www.hemelheroes.com.
