GROUP OF SIX. Private James Payne. R.A.M.C.& Mercantile Marine.

Awarded to Private James Payne of the Royal Army Medical Corps late Mercantile Marines of the Merchant Navy. Queen’s Sudan Medal, Queen South Africa & Kings South Africa (11034 PTE. J. PAYNE. R.A.M.C.), British War Medal & Mercantile Marine Medal (JAMES PAYNE) and Khedive’s Sudan Medal (11034 PTE. J. PAYNE. R.A.M.C.). Born in 1875 in Southampton in Hampshire. Service papers indicate he joined the army on the 20^th January 1894 at the age of 18 years and 9^th month. He was enlisted into the Hampshire Regiment later Royal Army Medical Corps. At the outbreak of the Sudan Campaign of 1876-1898 Private James Payne served with the Army Medical Staff and Royal Army Medical Corps. In which he was awarded the Queen’s Sudan Medal and Khedive’s Sudan Medal (no clasps). Later he was again serving in the South Africa Boer War. Awarded Queen South Africa with clasp ‘Cape Colony’ and Kings South Africa clasps South Africa 1901 and Soth Africa 1902, all clasps confirmed on rolls. After serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps Private James Payne decided to change service and joined the Mercantile Marine on the eve of the First World War. He served during the war and was later awarded the British War Medal and Mercantile Marine Medal. Records indicate his service number as being 783282 serving out of Southampton. Further research shows that after the war James Payne wenton to marry Florence S. Hurst, details recorded in Civil Registration and Marriage in July 1919. The 1921 census records them living at 68 Dover Street, Southampton. Interesting to note he left the Merchant Navy and returned to the Army serving with the Royal Army Ordnance Department. Plus by this time they had a daughter called Winifred. In 1939 working as a Storeman at the RAOC Docks in Southampton. In April 1946 his wife Florence S Payne died later James Payne past away on the 12^th August 1954. (with copy Army Service Papers, Sudan/Khedive’s Sudan Medal Rolls, Queen/King South Africa Medal Rolls, British War Medal Roll, Mercantile Marine Medal Roll, Marriage Registration and Census Rolls).

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