Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Able Seaman Albert Howard Mayne, Royal Navy

East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Sierra Leone 1898-99 (A.B., H.M.S. Fox); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 8 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast, Relief of Kimberley (1571.. A.B., H.M.S. Mon....) officially engraved naming, unofficial rivets between first and second clasps; Life Saving Medal, silver straight-armed paty cross surmounted by an eagle, obverse inscribed, ‘A.B., R.N.’, reverse inscribed, ‘Presented to A. H. Mayne by J. G. Williams Esqre. for saving his daughter “May” from drowning, March 10th 1896’, hallmarks for Birmingham 1901, manufacturer’s name erased, with silver brooch bar inscribed, ‘A. H. Mayne’, first two with edge bruising and contact marks, fine, naming on Q.S.A. especially worn; last very fine, rare (3) £1000-1400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of East and West Africa Medals to the Royal Navy.

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87 ‘Sierra Leone 1898-99’ clasps awarded to Fox. Only 24 eight-clasp Queen South Africa Medals awarded to the Royal Navy, of which 17 were awarded to Monarch.

Albert Howard Mayne was born in Glamorgan on 29 January 1875. A Clerk by occupation, he entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in September 1890 and was advanced to Boy 1st Class in September 1891. He was promoted to Ordinary Seaman on the Cruiser in January 1893 and Able Seaman on Collingwood in April 1894. He was based at Victory I, November 1895-April 1896; on Fox, April 1896-May 1899 and on Monarch, May 1899-October 1900. He was discharged in 1905 having completed his period of service. Sold with original photograph of the recipient in uniform wearing his three medals; copied service paper and confirmation of clasps.