Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part II)

Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., Territorial (2207017 Cpl. F. S. Payne, R.E.) officially corrected in places, very fine £40-60

Frederick Stanley Payne, who was born in March 1908 and enlisted in the Royal Engineers in April 1922, was captured at Kalamata, Greece, on 29 April 1941, a location that had witnessed bitter fighting and much gallantry - Sergeant J. D. Hinton, a New Zealander, was awarded the V.C. for storming a German gun emplacement with the bayonet on the previous day. Payne was subsequently interned at Stalag XVIIIA at Wolfsberg (June 1941 to July 1942), and Stalag 383 at Hoenfelds (September 1942 to April 1945), according to recently released P.O.W. files in the National Archive.