Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private F. Payne, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1889-92, N.E. Frontier 1891 (4894 Pte. F. Payne 4th Bn. K.R. Rif. C.); India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (4894 Pte. F. Payne 1st Bn. K.R. Rifle Corps) official correction to surname; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 7 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast, South Africa 1901 (4894 Pte. F. Payne, K.R.R.C.) very fine (3) £500-£550

Fred Payne was born in the Parish of St Martins, Birmingham, and attested for the King’s Royal Rifle Corps at Winchester on 21 December 1888. Posted to the 4th Battalion, he served in India and Burma from February 1890 to January 1897, serving with the 4th Battalion in Manipur in 1891, and in Burma in 1892, before being posted to the 1st Battalion in October 1892. He then served with the 1st Battalion at the Relief of Chitral in 1895, and throughout the Boer War 1899-1901. He was discharged on 1 January 1902. Sold with copied discharge papers and medal roll extracts.