Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Three: Private G. Payne, Coldstream Guards, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 29 October 1914
1914 Star (10354 Pte. G. Payne. C. Gds:); British War and Victory Medals (10354 Pte. G. Payne . C. Gds.); Memorial Plaque (George Payne) in card envelope of issue, extremely fine

Three: Private H. B. Payne, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (26446 Pte. H. B. Payne R. War. R.); Defence Medal; together with the recipient’s British Legion lapel badge, the reverse numbered ‘40373’, good very fine (7) £200-£240

George Payne was born in Stogursey, Somerset, and attested for the Coldstream Guards at Taunton. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 14 September 1914, and was killed in action on 29 October 1914, at the first Battle of Ypres, during which his battalion was virtually annihilated. He has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Pyres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.