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Personal info

Full name
MANNING, Basil Karl
Date of birth
31 December 1914
Age
29
Place of birth
Covington, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana
Hometown
Brunswick County, Virginia

Military service

Service number
33042194
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
359th Infantry Regiment,
90th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died non-Battle
Date of death
15 November 1944
Place of death
Limburg an der Lahn, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
F 12 11

Immediate family

Members
Henry J. Manning (father)
Mittie (Sloan) Manning (mother)
Herman Manning (brother)
Margaret (Raney) Manning (wife)

More information

Pfc Basil K. Manning attended high school for four years before he enlisted in Richmond, Virginia on 16 April 1941.

He died from injuries in Stalag XII-A.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record / World War II Prisoners of War Data File, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / 1930 Census / Virginia Marriage Records / Europe, Registration of Foreigners and German Persecutees, 1939-1947
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