A Collection of Awards to the Army Service Corps

Four: Major R. C. Mayne, Royal Army Service Corps

1914 Star, with copy clasp (Lieut., A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals, small M.I.D. oakleaf (Major); Serbia, Order of the White Eagle, 2nd type, 5th Class breast badge with swords, silver, silver-gilt and enamel; together with a set of four miniature dress medals and riband bar, these mounted in a glass-fronted wooden case, last with minor enamel damage, otherwise nearly extremely fine (8) £550-6501914 Star, with clasp,

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to the Army Service Corps.

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M.I.D. London Gazette 17 February 1915 (Field Marshal J. D. P. French despatch of 20 November 1914) ‘Captain R. C. Mayne’

M.I.D. London Gazette 20 January 1921. ‘... for valuable and distinguished services rendered with the British Military Mission in Siberia, dated 16th October 1920’. ‘Mayne, Capt. (T/Maj.) R.C., R.A.S.C.’

Serbia, Order of the White Eagle, 5th Class with swords London Gazette 15 February 1917.

Rudolph Cuthbert Mayne was born in Singapore on 3 August 1887, the son of Captain J. G. Mayne, C.B.E. Educated at Sandhurst, he was gazetted into the A.S.C. in February 1908. He was promoted to Lieutenant in February 1911, Captain in October 1914, and held the rank of Temporary Major from November 1914. Mayne entered the France/Flanders theatre of war in August 1914 and was D.A.Q.M.G. to the 36th Ulster Division in France, September -December 1915. Posted to Egypt in December 1915, he was A.D.C. to the C-in-C. Egypt Expeditionary Force until August 1916 when he was invalided to England. He briefly returned to France in January 1917 before being invalided to England once more during the following month. For his services during the first months of the war he was mentioned in despatches and in 1917 he was awarded the Serbian Order of the White Eagle. Major Mayne served in the British Mission to Siberia as D.A.D. of Supply and Transport, from June 1919, for which service he was mentioned in despatches. Post-war he continued to serve, being promoted to Major in 1926 and placed on Retired Pay in 1929.

With original service paper and two M.I.D. Certificates; and copied gazette extracts and m.i.c.