Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War O.B.E. group of four awarded to Surgeon Lieutenant H. C. C. Mann, Royal Navy

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; 1914-15 Star (Surg. H. C. Mann, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Surg. Lt. H. C. Mann. R.N.) very fine (4) £240-£280

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2001.

O.B.E. London Gazette 19 August 1919.
The original Recommendation states: ‘This officer entered immediately at the outbreak of war and served continuously, until demobilised, at Plymouth Hospital, H.M.S. Duncan, Malta Hospital and Osborne College. He was specially appointed to the latter place on account of his special medical knowledge and he is an exceptionally able physician. His reports have been excellent.’

Harold Charles Corry Mann undertook his medical training at Guy’s Hospital, and qualified MD in 1906. Prior to the War he was a Consulting Physician at Evelina Hospital for Sick Children and St John’s Hospital, Lewisham. He was appointed Surgeon (Temporary) in the Royal Navy on 3 August 1914, and was appointed to the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth, on 11 August 1914; transferring to H.M.S. Duncan in July 1915; to the Royal Naval Hospital, Malta, in February 1917; and to Osborne Naval College in August 1917. He was demobilised in March 1919, and for his services during the Great War was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

In civilian life Mann was a Member of the Research Staff of the Medical Research Council, and was a Medical Registrar, Tutor and Assistant Demonstrator of Pathology at Guy‘s Hospital. He was also the author of several papers on diet and nutrition. He died in London on 18 February 1961.

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