Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to coincide with the OMRS Convention

A Great War C.B.E. group of ten to Paymaster Rear Admiral G. C. A. Boyer, Royal Navy

Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) 1st type; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, no clasp (Asst. Paymr., H.M.S. Briton); China 1900, no clasp (Payr., R.N., H.M.S. Marathon); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaf (Payr. Capt., R.N.); Italy, Order of the Crown, Commander’s neck badge, gold and enamel; France, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast badge, silver, gold and enamel; Khedive’s Star 1884-6, unnamed; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, no clasp (H.M.S. Scout 1896); Italy, Messina Earthquake Medal 1908, good very fine and better (10) £1000-1200

C.B.E. London Gazette 1.1.1919.

M.I.D. London Gazette 16.3.1918.

Legion of Honour London Gazette 12.12.1918.

Paymaster Rear Admiral George Christopher Aubin Boyer, the son of George and Elizabeth Boyer of Beaumont, Jersey, was born on 28.2.1862. Educated at St. James’s Collegiate, Jersey, he joined the Royal Navy as an Assistant Clerk in 1878. He was promoted to Assistant Paymaster in 1883 and in the following year was appointed to H.M.S. Briton on which he took part in the naval operations off the coast of Sudan at Suakin. He was promoted to Paymaster in 1894 and in 1895 was appointed to H.M.S. Scout on which he served off the coast of Sudan in the Dongola Expedition. He joined H.M.S. Marathon in 1899 and during the following year saw service off the coast of China. In late 1900 he was promoted Staff Paymaster and in 1902 appointed Fleet Paymaster. Whilst serving in this capacity aboard H.M.S. Euryalus he landed in December 1908 for duty ashore in the aftermath of the Messina earthquake. For his services he was awarded the Order of the Crown and the Messina Earthquake Medal by the Italian Government. At the beginning of the Great War he was Fleet Paymaster on H.M.S. Impregnable being appointed to H.M.S. President in February 1916. Whilst holding this appointment he was posted for port duties at Boulogne, France, for which he was recommended by the Commander-in-Chief, France ‘for distinguished and gallant services and devotion to duty for the period 20.2.1917 to 20.9.1917.’ In March 1918 he was promoted Paymaster-in-Chief which was later changed to Paymaster Captain. For his wartime services he was mentioned in despatches, awarded the C.B.E. and the French Legion of Honour. In 1921 he was placed on the Retired List with the rank of Paymaster Rear Admiral. He died on 2.10.1949.
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