Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (8370 Sapper J. Mann, Rl: Engrs: Vols:) good very fine £100-140

John Mann was born in Inverness, Scotland, on 9 March 1875 and served as an apprentice engineer at the Darlington locomotive works. He attested for the 1st Lanarkshire Battalion Royal Engineers in Glasgow on 8 February 1900, having previously served in the 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry, and served with them in South Africa during the Boer War. He was also a keen shot, and competed regularly at Bisley. On the outbreak of the Great War he attempted to re-join the Royal Engineers, but was turned down on account of his reserved occupation, and so instead joined the National Reserve. He died on 6 March 1951.

Sold together with a slightly damaged cabinet photograph of the recipient; the recipient’s Discharge Certificates and Parchment Certificate of Character on discharge; Certificate appointing the recipient a Freeman Citizen of Glasgow, dated 7 March 1901; Telegram and Railway ticket; two New Testament Bibles; Belt, cap badge, and South African War Veterans Association lapel badge; and two photographs of the recipient, one taken in later life.