Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Lieutenant G. T. Manby-Colegrave, Army Service Corps, attached 221st Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, who died of wounds on 21 April 1917

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.) nearly extremely fine (2) £120-160

Gerard Thomas Manby-Colegrave was born on 26 February 1886. Living at West Bay Lodge, Westgate-on-Sea, Kent; formerly of Caldwell Hall, Nuneaton, he was appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the Kent Cyclist Battalion in November 1914 (London Gazette 22 December 1914). In August 1915 he was appointed Transport Officer with the South Eastern Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance R.A.M.C. with the honorary rank of Lieutenant (London Gazette 13 August 1915). He entered France on 12 January 1917 serving in the Army Service Corps. When attached to the 221st Siege Battery, R.G.A., he died of wounds at the 48th Field Ambulance on 21 April 1917 and was buried in the Haute-Avesnes British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. He was the son of Thomas and Alice Manby-Colegrave, of Cann Hall, Essex and Little Ellingham, Norfolk and husband of Hilda Atherton Brown (formerly Manby-Colegrave), of Bourton Hill House, Morton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. He was also owner of Cann Hall and Lord of the Manor of Little Ellingham.

With copied service papers, m.i.c., gazette and newspaper extracts and other research. Also with a copied group photograph.