tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4474109923977587465.post1368454130126715084..comments2024-02-19T13:16:46.659-05:00Comments on Soldiers of the 38th: Lieutenant John Speed ManningKenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15005399692061772537noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4474109923977587465.post-76285093862966333642010-10-24T19:03:50.616-04:002010-10-24T19:03:50.616-04:00I am the author of The Remains of Company D: A Sto...I am the author of The Remains of Company D: A Story of the Great War (about Co. D of the 28th Regiment, US 1st Division), and for my next book "Five Lieutenants" I have done some research on John Speed Manning, aka "Jock" Manning, who was the captain of Company M, 28th Infantry Regiment, US 1st Division. He took over as the company's captain on May 29th, 1918 -- the second day of the Battle of Cantigny. He was severely wounded six weeks later at the Paris-Soissons Road on July 19, 1918 during the Soissons offensive. Company M Private Vinton Pawel said Manning "was wounded twice in one arm, once in the stomach, and once in the leg" by machine-gun fire; I'm pretty sure this was during the renewal of the advance at the road, where Company M suffered severe casualties at about 4 a.m while trying to push through heavy mist and early morning fog towards Ploisy and were annilhilated by German machine guns. Manning was taken to an aid station in the afternoon, and lingered until July 25. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. I am researching whether his listed next of kin Thomas Ridgway is the same Thomas Ridgway who fathered the famed American WW2 commander Matthew Ridgway. Manning was also great friends with General John Wesley Green, a Rough Rider with whom Manning served in the Philipines, and who in a letter that Manning had no living relatives at the time of his death and "considered me as his Father and and my wife as his Mother, and was with us much of the time since 1904."JAMES CARL NELSONhttp://theremainsofcompanyd.comnoreply@blogger.com