Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant-Colonel J. E. Mayne, Indian Army

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Bt. Major, D.J.A.G. Saugor Fd. Dn.); Turkish Order of the Medjidie, 5th class breast badge, silver, gold and enamel central surround and suspension device; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian die, unnamed, the Medjidie good very fine but the first severely damaged by fire or acid-cleaning, poor, the last polished, fine (3) £300-400

James Edmund Mayne was born in November 1821, the son of John Mayne, Deputy Quarter-Master General, Bombay Army, and was baptised at Poona in January of the following year. Educated at the Naval and Military Academy in Edinburgh, he was appointed a Cornet in the 8th Madras Cavalry in May 1839 and was advanced to Lieutenant in February 1844. Five years later, while serving as Adjutant, he was advanced to Captain.

Active service followed with the Turkish Contingent at the close of the Crimea War, services that resulted in him being awarded the Turkish Order of the Medjidie, and, in 1857, having been advanced to Major, he served in the Kurnool Column under General Whitlock in Central India. He subsequently joined the Saugor Field Division and was present at the affair of Sheejung Kobrai, battle of Banda and the storming of the heights of Punwarree, and onetime held the appointment of Deputy Judge Advocate General.

Mayne, who was advanced to Lieutenant-Colonel on the Madras Staff Corps in January 1865, retired in December 1876 and died in June 1898.

The suspension is detached from the Mutiny medal