Iven Manning

Iven Wemyss Manning (7 June 1918 – 20 July 1988) was an Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1950 to 1974.

He worked as a farmhand after leaving school, and then in 1940 enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force.

Manning served with the 2/28th Battalion in the Middle East, and lost his arm in the First Battle of El Alamein in July 1942, in the area known as Ruin Ridge.

[2] Manning was a Liberal Party whip from 1957 to 1962 and again from 1965 to 1974, and served as chairman of committees in the Legislative Assembly from 1962 to 1965.

He returned to farming after leaving politics, and died in Perth in July 1988, aged 70.