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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 800

A Great War, Thrice Wounded Casualty Group of Three to Company Sergeant Major H.E. Payne, Australian Imperial Force, Wounded at Gallipoli During a Night Attack, May 1915; Wounded a Second Time, July 1915; Fatally Wounded a Third Time at Passchendaele, Belgium, November 1917 1914-15 Star (1402 Pte. H.E. Payne. 2/Bn. A.I.F.); British War and Victory Medals (1402 W.O. Cl.2. H.E. Payne. 2-Bn. A.I.F.), nearly extremely fine, with Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque ´Herbert Edwin Payne´, enclosure slip, Parchment Memorial Scroll, this with original postage tube of issue addressed to ´Mrs. F.H. Payne, Belmont House, Winchcombe St., Cheltenham´, and photographic image of recipient (lot) Estimate £ 300-350 1402 Company Sergeant Major Herbert Edwin Payne, born Gloucester, 1888; served with the 5th (Territorial) Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment prior to emigrating to Australia, ´He enlisted in the Army on the 26th November 1914 in the 2nd Battalion Australian Infantry..... Sent to Egypt for training, he left Alexandria on board the transport ship Derflinger on the 5th April 1915, taking part in the landings at Gallipoli on the 25th and receiving a gun shot wound in the right shoulder on the 2nd May during a night attack on the hill known as Baby 700. Evacuated to Egypt, he rejoined his unit on the 31st May, but shortly afterwards fell ill with gastritis and was sent to the Island of Lemnos to recover. He rejoined his unit on the 14th August and after promotion to Lance Corporal was withdrawn with his unit to Egypt on the 28th December 1915. He went with his battalion to France in March 1916, by which time he was a Sergeant but fell ill again with tonsillitis and did not rejoin his unit May. He was wounded for a second time, this time in the right shoulder, by a rifle bullet, on the 23rd July. Sent to England, via Rouen on the Hospital Ship St. Andrew he was hospitalised at Newport, Monmouth. He was not fit enough to rejoin his unit until the 18th December, being promoted WO II...... He was sent to a School of Instruction for a month before going with his unit to take part in the 3rd Ypres, commonly known as Passchendaele. On the 5th November 1917 the 2nd Australians were sent into the line, receiving during the course of the next few days ´the most concentrated and best directed fire laid down by the enemy´. Losing all their officers except one they had to send word back to Ypres to bring up the nucleus of their reserves, one of whom was Herbert Payne, in order to sustain the assault. On the 6th November he received his third wound, a gunshot to the right arm and was evacuated to No 44 Casualty Clearing Station, where he died on the 9th November. He is buried in Nine Elms Cemetery, Poperinghe.´ (Leaving All That Was Dear, refers).

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