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An Intriguing Boer War, Liverpool Regiment, Officer 5 Clasp QSA, Great War Motor Machine Gun Corps 1917 Palestine Casualty Pair awarded to Lieutenant, later Captain, Ernest Louis Evelyn Paine The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) attached 17th Battery Machine Gun Corps (Motors) who was accidentally Killed on the 8th of April 1917 comprising, Queen’s South Africa Medal, 3rd type, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, (Lieut: E.L.E. Paine. L. Pool Rgt), 1914-1920 British War Medal, (Captain E.L.E. Paine) QSA contemporarily mounted on a pin for wear, engraved naming, British War Medal re-engraved naming, both very lightly toned, very fine.
Ernest Louis Evelyn Paine, a resident of Greve d’Azelte, Jersey, Channel Islands, was Commissioned into the King’s (Liverpool Regiment) as Lieutenant on the 12th of September 1900, after the Boer War he was seconded to the Territorial Battalion returning to the Regular Battalion on the 6th of April 1907, He was Assistant Superintendent of Gymnasia from 1907 to the 3rd of October 1910. He must have left the Army at some point between 1910 and 1914 for on the 25th of September 1914 he was re-appointed Temporary Lieutenant. From the 21st of November 1914 he was seconded from the 12th Battalion The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) for Service with the Motor Machine Gun Batteries. Promoted Temporary Captain, Motor Machine Gun Service 26th June 1915. Ernest was accidentally killed on the 8th of April 1917 whilst serving in Palestine with the 17th Battery Machine Gun Corps (Motors). He is buried in Deir El Belah War Cemetery, Plot C Grave 66, in Palestine, now Israel. He was the son of Helen Paine of Greve d’Azelte, Jersey, he was 38 years old when he died.
Sold with his Brothers 1914-15 Star, awarded to Skipper R.N.R. 2nd Lieutenant Inland Water Transport Royal Engineers Arthur Cecil Paine, 1914-15 Satr (W.S.A. 1693 A.C. Paine. SKR. R.N.R.), very fine.
A Skipper in the Mercantile Marine residing in Torquay who joined the Royal Naval Division on the 18th of November 1914 stating he had served 2 years with the “Worcesters”. And then it gets interesting!!!
He was posted to 2nd Section, Hawke Battalion, R.N.D. on the 9th of January 1915, on the 1st of April 1915 he was drafted from Hawke Battalion to Blandford Royal Naval Depot, on the 27th of May 1915 he joined the Royal Naval reserve but was Discharged for misconduct on the 1st of November 1915. His Army Medal Index Card states Royal Naval Division as Skipper (1914-15 Star issued by R.N.R., as Private 34739, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, Sapper 208361 Royal Engineers, Commissioned 25th August 1917, Inland Water Transport Royal Engineers 2nd Lieutenant. British War and Victory issued by RE Officers Roll. He landed in France in April 1916 and is entitled to a Silver War Badge. Quite a career!!
Both worthy of further research.
Sold with Commonwealth War Graves Commission information, copy London Gazette entries, copy RNR and RND Service papers copy Medal Index cards.
