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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 101

Six: Major H. Manson, Hampshire Home Guard, Late Indian Army and Durham Light Infantry
1914-15 Star (18-322 Pte. H. Manson. Durh: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. H. Manson.), both officially renamed; India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (2/Lt. H. Manson, 1/35/Sikhs.); Defence Medal; Cadet Forces Medal, E.II.R. (Major H. Manson.), minor edge bruising, nearly very fine or better, with the recipient's shoulder titles, buttons, and cap badges; Medal Officer enclosure for the Cadet Forces Medal; the recipient's Wayfarers Lodge Masonic Medal, silver-gilt (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1959) and enamel, the reverse engraved 'Presented to W. Bro. H. Manson for services rendered as Twenty-First W.M.', with 'Wayfarers Lodge No.5740' suspension bar and 'W.M. 1958-59 Vicesimus Primus' top riband bar; and the recipient's Portsmouth and District Caledonian Society Medal, silver (Hallmarks for Edinburgh 1965) and enamel, the reverse engraved 'H. Manson', with top 'Past Chief' silver riband bar (6)

Cadet Forces Medal London Gazette 28.3.1958 A/Maj. H. Manson (344571), Portsmouth Northern Grammar School, Combined Cadet Force

Major Horace Manson, born 1897; educated at West Hartlepool Secondary School; enlisted in the Durham Light Infantry and served with the 18th (Pals) Battalion during the Great War in the Egyptian theatre from 22.12.1915; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Indian Army, and advanced Captain, 35th Sikhs; subsequently served with the 5th (Winchester) Battalion, Hampshire Home Guard; awarded Cadet Forces Medal for service with the Portsmouth Northern Grammar School Combined Cadet Force; retired with the rank of Major, 31.12.1957.

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