Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 2 clasps, Suakin 1884, Tamaai (A. Mann. A.B. H.M.S....

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 2 clasps, Suakin 1884, Tamaai (A. Mann. A.B. H.M.S. “Euryalus”) sometime silvered, contact pitting from star, good fine and better £300-£400 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, April 1994. Allan Mann was born at Alyth, near Blairgowrie, Perthshire, on 20 November 1862, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Unicorn (Time only) on 20 November 1878, and removed to St Vincent the following day. He served aboard a variety of ships before joining Euryalus as an Ordinary Seaman on 11 January 1882, his character rated ‘V. Good’ throughout. However, having been advanced to Able Seaman in May 1882, he was charged and found guilty of the theft of 3 Rupees from another A.B. in Euryalus in July 1884, and ‘adjudged to be imprisoned with hard labour for six calendar months.’ The Court, however, considered the charge proved, but Mann, in consideration of his previous good character, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment only. He earned both the Egypt 1882 medal and the clasps in Euryalus, the medal being delivered on board on 30 June 1883, and the clasps sent to Duke of Wellington on 19 February 1885. Despite his continued service in the Navy, Mann’s character remained indifferent and ‘Bad’ with several periods in cells, culminating in 42 days in Malta Gaol, followed by a further 90 days in a civil prison at Malta, upon the expiration of which he was to be ‘Dismissed the Service as objectionable’, which duly occurred on 6 May 1888. Sold with copied record of service and medal roll extracts.