Manny Simons

 was a British Army soldier in World War I. Manny's father and mother fled religious persecution in Russia and ended up in the Gorbals. Manny was a talented boxer.

He was fighting alongside Jamie Colquhoun through most of the war, from Mons in August 1914 till the Big Push in the Somme in July 1916. (COMIC: The Weeping Angels of Mons)