Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Meredyth MANGIN
Royal Army Medical Corps

Date of birth: 27th June 1867
Date of death: 31st December 1918

Died aged 51
Commemorated on the Delhi War Memorial
He was born at 4 St Michael's, Limerick in Ireland on the 27th of June 1867, the eldest son of the Reverend James Mangin and Georgina (nee Sandys), later of St Michael's Rectory in Canterbury.

He was educated at King's Canterbury as a dayboy from May 1877 to April 1884.

In 1886 he gained a Jefferson Exhibition to St Bartholomew's Hospital and won the Hitchens Prize in 1888. He obtained a Certificate in Anatomy in 1887. He became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1890 and of the Royal College of Physicians in the same year and was added to the medical register on the 18th of August 1890

He then joined the Army Medical Services and from 1892 to 1893 he attended the Netley Army Medical School where he won the Park's Medal in Hygiene and the Martin Gold Medal in medicine also the Herbert Prize, the Prize in Pathology and the 2nd Montefiore Prize in Surgery . He was appointed a Surgeon Lieutenant on the 30th of January 1893 and to Captain on the 30th of January 1896. He became a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Health and a Fellow of the Huguenot Society of London.

He was married in 1895 to Amy Eleanor (nee Hinge) and had a two daughters, Evelyn Adderlay Meredyth born on the 27th of September 1896 and Margaret Amy Etienne born in about 1900.

He saw service during the South African War including operations in the Cape Colony in 1902 where he won the Malakland Medal with clasp. On the 30th of July 1904 he was promoted to the rank of Major and he served on the North West Frontier in 1907 and 1908.

In 1911 he and the family were living at “Northleigh”, Church Lane, East Aldershot. He was a Freemason and was accepted as a member of the Aldershot Army and Navy Lodge on the 26th of October 1911. He became a member of Lodge Hope at Meerut on the 2nd of October 1913 and of Lodge Orion of the West at Poona on the 18th of December 1913

He was in India on the outbreak of war and was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on the 1st of March 1915. He saw service on several fronts before being posted again to India in 1918. His work there was very strenuous and, being unable to obtain any home leave, he died of ill health on the 31st of December 1918 at the British Stationary Hospital at Meerut.

He was a freemason, being a member of the Aldershot Army and Navy Lodge No. 1971.
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