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Auction: 25001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 194

Medical Staff

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1878-9 (Civil Surgn. E. R. Mansell.), nearly extremely fine, with named card box of issue

8 Medals with '1878-9' clasp issued to Civil Surgeons of the Army Medical Department.

Edward Rosser Mansell was born on 28 January 1853, son of Edward Mansell of Lonsdale Lodge, Dulwich, an auctioneer and surveyor. Sent to Dulwich College, he went to Guys Hospital in 1870 and qualified L.S.A. in 1876 & MRCS in 1877.

With the outbreak of the Zulu War, he served with various units including the Field Hospital forming part of Pearson’s No. 1 Column. Together with Surgeons Henry Norbury (see Lot 144) & Thompson, R.N., Mansell tended the wounded during the Siege of Eshowe.

Returned home he practiced as a Hospital Surgeon in Hastings from 1881 and was made a Justice of the Peace in 1901. Married with issue of four children, Mansell died in May 1924 and is buried at Hastings Cemetery.

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Estimate
£700 to £900

Starting price
£550