Five: Captain D. Manners, Auckland Mounted Rifles, Late 9th Lancers, Queen's South Africa, eight clasps, Natal, Belmont, Modder River, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (3932 Serjt., 9/Lrs.); King's South Africa, two clasps (3932 Serjt., 9th Lancers); 1914-15 Star (13/631 Capt., N.Z.E.F.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaf (13/631 Capt., N.Z.E.F.), the last officially re-impressed, the second with slightly bent suspension bar, contact wear, generally very fine (5)

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Five: Captain D. Manners, Auckland Mounted Rifles, Late 9th Lancers, Queen's South Africa, eight clasps, Natal, Belmont, Modder River, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (3932 Serjt., 9/Lrs.); King's South Africa, two clasps (3932 Serjt., 9th Lancers); 1914-15 Star (13/631 Capt., N.Z.E.F.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaf (13/631 Capt., N.Z.E.F.), the last officially re-impressed, the second with slightly bent suspension bar, contact wear, generally very fine (5)

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Captain D. Manners, whose earlier 'ten-clasp' services with the 9th Lancers in the Boer War are verified (P.R.O. WO 100/116 refers), attested for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in September 1914 and served in Gallipoli as a Regimental Sergeant-Major in the Auckland Mounted Rifles. Following the costly and ill-fated attack on Chunuk Bair on 9.8.1915, the Regiment could only muster 22 ranks out of an original strength of 288 men, Manners being listed as one of the lucky survivors - 'Worn out as they had been before the fighting, the survivors were now practically shadows of men'. Commissioned that October, Manners went on to witness further action with the Auckland Mounted Rifles and was at one time Adjutant to the N.Z.M.R. Brigade. He was advanced to Captain in February 1918 and demobilised in October 1919.