Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Acting Sergeant E. N. G. Payne, 21st Lancers, latterly Machine Gun Corps

1914-15 Star (2120 Pte., 21-Lrs.); British War and Victory Medals (2120 Cpl., 21-Lrs.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, unnamed, the first three with officially impressed naming but slightly later issues, generally very fine (4) £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Tom Gustard Collection of Medals & Militaria and to the 21st Lancers.

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Ernest Nelson George Payne, who was advanced to Lance-Corporal in July 1915, first went into action in the regiment’s celebrated charge at Shabkadar on 5 September 1915 (his MIC entry confirms), when he served as a member of the regiment’s Machine Gun Section. He subsequently served as an Acting Sergeant in the M.G.C. during the Third Afghan War.