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Three: Lieutenant-Colonel F. M. Mangin, Royal Army Medical Corps
India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (Surgn. Capt., A.M.S.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (Capt., R.A.M.C.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Lt. Col.), the first with officially re-engraved naming, contact marks, very fine or better (3) £250-300
Frederick Meredyth Mangin was born in Limerick in June 1867 and entered the Army Medical Service as a Surgeon Lieutenant on 30 January 1893. Promoted to Surgeon Captain in January 1896, he served on the N.W. Frontier of India, 1897-98, at No. 3 British Field Hospital, Punjab Command, and during the Boer War, in Cape Colony in 1902. Advanced to Major in July 1904, he entered the India theatre of war in August 1914, was advanced to Lieutenant-Colonel in March 1915 and died in December 1918, his only entitlement being to the British War Medal 1914-20; sold with India General Service medal roll extract, his MIC entry and other research.
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