Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Major Charles Manners, Royal Artillery, who was wounded at the battle of Barossa

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Barrosa (C. Manners, Lieut. R. Arty.) good very fine £2500-3000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Napoleonic War Medals.

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Provenance: Glendining, February 1980 and December 1990.

Charles Manners was born at Grantham, Lincolnshire, on 8 March 1791, and joined the Royal Artillery from the Cadet Company as Second Lieutenant on 3 November 1807, being promoted to First Lieutenant on 24 September 1808. He served in the Peninsula with Hughs’ 6th Company, 9th Battalion, Royal Artillery, and was present throughout the siege of Cadiz, February 1810 to August 1812, except when employed with the Division at the battle of Barrosa, 5 March 1811, and at the siege of Tarifa in December 1811, at both of which he was engaged as a regimental officer.

Manners was wounded at the battle of Barrosa, slightly in the inner and upper part of the right thigh. Of their services in the battle, Sir Thomas Graham reported in his despatch, ‘I owe too much to Major Duncan and the Officers and Corps of the Royal Artillery not to mention them in terms of the highest approbation. Never was artillery better served.’

Promoted to Second Captain in November 1827 and to Captain in January 1837, Manner saw much service overseas in the West Indies, particularly on the islands of Jamaica, Barbados, Antigua and Demerara, in the period January 1822 to January 1841. He retired on Full Pay on 13 August 1840 and received the brevet of Major on 28 November 1854. Major Manners died at Cheltenham on 23 October 1874. Sold with copied Statement of Services.