The Late Bruce C Cazel Collection of British Campaign Awards

Three: Private A. Mayne, 2nd Rhodesia Regiment, who died of illness, East Africa, 9 February 1917

1914-15 Star (810 Pte., 2-Rhodesia Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (810 Pte., 2-Rhodesia Regt.) good very fine (3)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Late Bruce C Cazel Collection of British Campaign Awards.

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Andrew McCutcheon Mayne, a Farmer from Umtali, Southern Rhodesia, attested for the 2nd Rhodesia Regiment on 23 November 1914. He served in East Africa from 9 March 1915. Private Mayne died of Blackwater Fever at Dothumi Hospital on 9 February 1917, aged 36 years, and was buried in the Dothumi Military Cemetery. After the war he was reburied in the Morogoro Cemetery, Tanganyika. He was the son of Thomas and Fanny McCutcheon Mayne, of Newtownards, Co. Down, Ireland.