The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (1249 Cpl. W. H. Payne, C.I.V.) extremely fine £120-£160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria.

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Provenance: J. B. Hayward, October 1967.

William Henry Payne was born in Brixton, London in 1878 and was educated at Whitgift School, Croydon. A clerk, formerly with the City Bank and then with London Brazilian Bank, he enlisted in the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Royal West Surrey Regiment (the former 2nd Surrey Rifles) on 15 January 1895, advancing to Sergeant, and served with their 12 man detachment in South Africa during the Boer War as a Corporal in “H” Company, Infantry Battalion, City Imperial Volunteers. He died of enteric fever at Heilbron on 26 July 1900.

£100 was paid from the C.I.V. fund to his next of kin, Mrs. Payne, of 53 Enmore Road, South Norwood, and a C.I.V. memorial commemorating Corporal Payne was erected in St. Mark’s Church, South Norwood.