Orders, Decorations and Medals

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (E. Mann, Ch. Car. Mte., H.M.S. Merlin) nearly very fine £140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals for the Somaliland 1902-1904 to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines.

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H.M.S. Merlin was a steel screw sloop. 135 officers and men of the ship were entitled to the clasp.

Elias Mann, the son of Elias and Emma A. Mann of Plymouth, served in the Boxer Rebellion and Somaliland Campaign 1902-04. As the Chief Shipwright (Pensioner) serving aboard the 1st class cruiser Argonaut, he died on 22 June 1915, aged 45 years. He was buried in the Funchal British Cemetery, Madeira. He was the husband of Sarah Gilberd Mann, of 38 Barton Avenue, Keyham, Devonport.