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Air Commodore Edye Rolleston Manning CBE DSO MC (14 February 1889 – 26 April 1957) was an Australian born senior officer in the Royal Air Force.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Who's who in Australia )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Aeroplane )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Debrett's Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage ... )〕〔https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37124/supplement/3073/data.pdf〕 In the early days of World War II he was tasked with establishing a string of airfields in the Far East from Lashio to Mingladon.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Disaster in the Far East 1940- 1942 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The British Empire and the Second World War )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fortnight of Infamy )〕 ==Life== Edye Rolleston Manning was born in Australia on 14 February 1889, the son of William Alexander Manning, a solicitor practising in New South Wales, Australia.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage )〕 He was educated at Bedford Modern School in England before studying medicine at Edinburgh University.〔 When World War I broke out, Manning ceased his studies at Edinburgh and joined the Cavalry, serving in France and Belgium with the 15th Hussars.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=E R Manning_P )〕 Frustrated by the stalemate of trench warfare he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps where he attained RAeC Certificate No. 2253 on 9 October 1916.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Quiet Australian )〕 He was wounded at the Battle of the Somme in July 1916 while serving with Number 3 Squadron.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Quiet Australian )〕 As Commanding Officer of Number 6 Squadron, Manning was responsible for the evacuation of the British High Commissioner from Suliemanieh in Kurdistan after which he was made a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order.〔 In 1928 he chose to go on half-pay in order to attempt a flight from England to Australia in a Westland Widgeon he owned privately.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Flight International )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Aviation Week and Space Technology )〕 He got as far as Tunis before crashing at Lebda; Manning was uninjured but his plane was a write-off and he was forced to abandon the attempt.〔 After his aborted flight, Manning became Officer Commanding of RAF Hornchurch (1930)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1930 - 0503 - Flight Archive )〕 and RAF Manston (1933)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1935 - 2- 0259 - Flight Archive )〕 before retiring in 1935 to become a stockbroker in Sydney.〔〔 At the advent of World War II he was persuaded to return to the Royal Air Force becoming Officer Commanding No. 221 Group as a Group Captain in March 1941, establishing a ‘string of airfields stretching from Lashio to Mingladon’.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Far East Air Operations 1942-1945 )〕 In January 1942 he was appointed Air Commodore of the Group.〔 Manning died on 26 April 1957.〔 There is a photographic portrait of Manning at the National Portrait Gallery, London.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Edye Rolleston Manning )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edye Rolleston Manning」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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