Fire Brigade Medals

A K.P.M. group of five to Assistant Divisional Officer C. E. Mant, Worthing Fire Brigade

King’s Police and Fire Services Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, for Distinguished Service (Coy. Officer, No.32 (Worthing) Fire Force); Defence Medal; National Fire Brigades Association Services Rendered Medal, silvered and gilt metal and enamel (Presented to Ch. Off. Chas. E. Mant, 1948); National Fire Brigades Association L.S. Medal, 1 clasp, Twenty Years (6444 Charles E. Mant), silver; another, 2 clasps, Ten Years, Five Years (12732 Charles E. Mant), bronze, mounted as worn, good very fine and better (5) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Fire Brigade Medals.

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K.P.M. London Gazette 1 January 1948.

Charles Mant became Secretary of the Storrington Volunteer Fire Brigade in 1924 and was appointed Chief Officer in 1927. He served in that capacity until 1933, when under the Fire Brigades Act, he became the Chief Officer of the Chanctonbury Rural District Council and was in charge of three brigades, those of Storrington, Henfield and Steyning. In August 1941 he was appointed Company Officer in charge of the Chanctonbury Command, a post he was to hold until his retirement in 1947. During the war, his area of command was popularly known as ‘Mant’s Country’. In 1948 he was brought out of retirement to take up the part-time position of Assistant Divisional Officer (Staff Duties) in the Worthing Division of the West Sussex Fire Brigade. Later in the year, Mant was presented with the King’s Police and Fire Services Medal by Lord Leconfield, G.C.V.O., the Lord Lieutenant of Sussex. Sold with one original and two copied newspaper cuttings and some copied research details.