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Auction: 4020 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 87

Group of Seven to Brigadier General Sir W.H. Manning, King's African Rifles, Late Indian Army and South Wales Borderers Order of the British Empire, Knight Commander (K.B.E.) Civil Division, first type set of insignia, neck Badge and Star, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, extremely fine, with neck riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue; Order of the Bath, Military Division, Companion's (C.B.) neck Badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, minor enamel damage; India General Service 1854-95, two clasps, Burma 1887-89, Hazara 1891, edge details erased; Central Africa 1891-98, one clasp, Central Africa 1894-95 (Lieutt W. H. Manning 1st Sikh Infy P.F.Force); Africa General Service 1902-56, two clasps, Somaliland 1902-04, Jidballi (Brig:-Gen: W.H. Manning. The King's African Rif:); Coronation 1902; Coronation 1911, good very fine, the medals mounted court style (8) Estimate £ 2,400-2,800 Brigadier General Sir William Henry Manning G.C.M.G., K.B.E., C.B. (1863-1932), educated at Cambridge and Sandhurst; joined the South Wales Borderers 1886; joined the Indian Army 1888, and took part in the second Burma War (wounded), the Samana and Hazara expeditions, and served on the North West Frontier 1891; served in Central Africa and Rhodesia 1893-98; Captain, and Deputy Commissioner and Consul for Central Africa 1897; Major and Commissioner 1898; Lieutenant Colonel 1899; raised and commanded the Central Africa Regiment, and commanded the Somaliland Field Force 1902-04; Colonel 1904; Inspector-General King's African Rifles 1901-07; Acting Governor and Commander-in-Chief Nyasaland Protectorate 1907-08; Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief Somaliland Protectorate 1910; Governor and Commander-in-Chief Nyasaland Protectorate 1910-13; Governor of Jamaica 1913-18; Governor of Ceylon 1918-25.

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£3,400