Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part II)

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (Jn. A. Mann, Carps. Crew, H.M.S. Royal Adelaide, 20 Yrs.), engraved naming, edge nicks, good very fine £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals for Services at Sea from the Collection of the Late Oliver Stirling Lee.

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John Arthur Mann was born at Clerkenwell, London in October 1830 and entered the Royal Navy as Carpenter’s Crew in April 1854. His subsequent stints of active service comprised time aboard H.M.S. Hannibal in the Baltic operations of 1854, including the bombardment of Bomarsund, and, in the following year, participation in the reduction of Kertsch and Kinburn as part of the Crimea War naval operations. He was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in June 1874, and was presumably pensioned ashore shortly afterwards.