Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain H. Manley, Mercantile Marine

Transport 1899-1902, 1 clasp, S. Africa 1899-1902 (H. Manley); British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (Henry Manley), the last with officially re-impressed naming, generally very fine (3) £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Medals to the Merchant Navy.

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Henry Manley was born in East Coulston, Wiltshire in 1867, and commenced his seagoing career as a Fourth Officer in the British India Steam Navigation Company in 1896. Of his subsequent career, his obituary, which appeared in Lloyd’s List in October 1937, states:

‘Captain Manley joined the British India Steam Navigation Company in 1896 as Fourth Officer and among his early ships were the well known Dilwara, predecessor of the present troop carrier bearing that name. He received his command in the Nerbuoda in 1906 and from then until 1914 served in the Indian coasting trade. He was transferred to the home line of the company in the same year and appointed to the command of the Merkara in which vessel he served throughout the War and until the autumn of 1922, trading between the United Kingdom and India. His last ship was the Neuralia and he retired from active service in February 1924.’

And it was as Chief Officer of the Dilwara that he was awarded his Transport Medal.