The Jack Russell Collection of Medals to the Gloucestershire Regiment

Pair: Private D. Mann, Gloucestershire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front at Ypres on 27 August 1917

British War and Victory Medals (6260 Pte. D. Mann. Glouc. R.); Memorial Plaque (Dennis Mann) good very fine (3) £80-£100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Jack Russell Collection of Medals to the Gloucestershire Regiment.

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Dennis Mann was born in Norwich and attested there for the Gloucestershire Regiment. He served with the 2/4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action at Ypres on 27 August 1917: ‘In the early hours of 26 August. companies moved forward to the start line in front of Capricorn Keep. The attack started at 13.55 hours on 27 August, only to falter a short while later as the 61st Division was brought to a halt just short of the enemy’s outpost line between Gallipoli and Schuler Farms. In the two engagements in which the battalion had taken part at Ypres, no fewer than 4 officers were killed, five were wounded, and over two hundred other ranks were killed, wounded, or posted missing.’

Mann has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

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