Harry Osborne Mance

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Henry Osborne Mance
Born2 October 1875
First World War
AwardsKBE, CB, CMG, DSO

First World War
, transportation expert and author.

Biography

Harry Osborne Mance was born in Karachi on 2 October 1875, the son of Henry Christopher Mance, inventor of the heliograph and was educated at Bedford School, between 1884 and 1893, and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

He received his first commission as a

Peace of Vereeniging, and left Cape Town for home on the SS Britannic in early October that year.[2] For his service in the war, he was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in the October 1902 South African honours list.[3] He was an engineer during the construction of the Baro-Kano
Railway, between 1908 and 1911.

He served during the

Paris Peace Conference, between 1919 and 1920.[4]

He retired from the

Austrian Federal Railways, in 1933, and on the co-ordination of transportation in East Africa, in 1936. He was Director of Canals at the Ministry of War Transport, between 1941 and 1944, British Representative on the Transport and Communications Commission of the United Nations, between 1946 and 1954, British Delegate on the Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine, between 1946 and 1957, and was appointed as President of the Institute of Transport in 1949.[5]

Brigadier general Sir Harry Osborne Mance was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order in 1902, a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1917, a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1918, and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1929.[6][7][8]

He died in London on 30 August 1966, aged 90.[9] He had married Elsie Stenhouse and had two sons and a daughter. His elder son, Henry Stenhouse Mance, became chairman of Lloyd's of London.

Publications

  • The Road and Rail Transport Problem, 1940
  • International Telecommunications, 1943
  • International Air Transport, 1943
  • International River and Canal Transport, 1944
  • International Sea Transport, 1945
  • International Road Transport and Miscellaneous, 1946
  • Frontiers, Peace Treaties and International Organisation for Transport, 1946

References

  1. ^ Hart's Army list, 1903
  2. ^ "The Army in South Africa – Troops returning Home". The Times. No. 36899. London. 15 October 1902. p. 8.
  3. ^ "No. 27490". The London Gazette. 31 October 1902. p. 6899.
  4. ^ Walter H. Wills, The Anglo-African Who's Who and Biographical Sketchbook, London, 1907, p. 244
  5. ^ "Mance, Brigadier-General Sir H. Osborne, (2 Oct. 1875–30 Aug. 1966), Technical Adviser to Ottoman Bank, 1924–62; President, Institute of Transport, 1949". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
  6. ^ "No. 11458". The London Gazette. 4 November 1902. p. 1088.
  7. ^ "No. 30111". The London Gazette. 4 June 1917. p. 5460.
  8. ^ "No. 30450". The London Gazette. 1 January 1918. p. 7.
  9. ^ Obituary, The Times, 31 August 1966, p. 10
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