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Anthony Grant MannAlso recorded as Anthony Mann Grant, born on 27th March 1961, thirty year old Grant Mann was a former paratrooper and veteran of Northern Ireland with a love of dogs and motorbikes. He first came to Croatia in 1991, volunteering for a Croatian HOS unit known as Black Hawks, training Croatian recruits and fighting on the frontline in the Osijek area. He left this unit after a short period following a disagreement with the commander and fatefully joined the notorious International Company under the command of the former Spanish journalist Eduardo Rosa Flores. According to Croatian Ministry of Defence reports Grant was killed in Osijek on 23rd March 1992. Initially his family were told by a person claiming to have been his commander that Grant had died from a fatal chest wound received during an ambush. There had been a funeral in the city of Osijek, poorly attended due to continuing Serb bombardments and much of the civilian population having been evacuated from the area.Shortly afterwards his erstwhile commander turned up without warning at Northampton General Hospital, England with Grants body in a coffin. He departed before any investigation or post mortem examination could begin and the family later received a bill for Grants repatriation; οΎ£4,797.65. He lies buried in an English cemetery. The family, broken by the experience moved away. A subsequent British coroners inquest in 1994 ruled an open verdict and hypothesized that Grant may have been killed by someone on his own side, whether unintentionally or intentionally. He had been shot in the back of the head with a pistol at close range. His execution was rumoured to have been ordered by Flores and carried out by one of the nineteen foreigners serving in the International Company. Grant left behind a wife from whom he was estranged.
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