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Auction: 13002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 249

Three: Paymaster Captain H.A.T. Cummins [C.B.E.], Royal Navy
Abyssinia 1867-68 (Clerk H.A.T. Cummins H.M.S. Octavia); British War Medal (Hon. Payr. Capt. H.A.T. Cummins, C.B.E., R.N.); Coronation 1911 (H.A.T. Cummins, R.N.), impressed in large serif capitals, nearly extremely fine, with the two pre-War miniature awards, and the recipient's Great War Masonic Medal, silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1922), the reverse engraved 'Bro. H.A.T. Cummins. No.2612.' (3)

C.B.E. London Gazette 1.1.1919 Hon. Paymaster Captain Henry Ashley Travers Cummins, O.B.E., R.N.
'In recognition of valuable services rendered in connection with the War.'

O.B.E. London Gazette 7.1.1918 Paymaster-in-Chief Henry Ashley Travers Cummins, R.N.
'For services in connection with the War.'

Captain Henry Ashley Travers Cummins, C.B.E., Appointed Assistant Clerk, Royal Navy, December 1864; served in H.M.S. Octavia during the Abyssinia Campaign, 1867-68; promoted Assistant-Paymaster, December 1868; afterwards served in H.M.S. Minotaur, Flagship Channel Fleet; in 1871 took passage in Megaera for Australia- she was wrecked on St. Paul's Island during the voyage, but the Officers and crew were saved; when serving in H.M.S. Rosario, Australian Station, February 1872-75, was lent to H.M.S. Pearl for duty as Assistant Secretary to the Commissioners for the annexation of Fiji; served in H.M.S. Warrior, Channel Fleet, 1875-78, and H.M.S. Flora, Cape of Good Hope Station, 1878-81; engaged during the Boer War of 1881 in carrying out both the duties of Account Officer and those of Secretary of the Cape Yard (received the special thanks of the Commodore in Command of the Station, and of the Flag Officer in Command of the Detached Squadron); transferred to the Retired List with the rank of Paymaster, January 1882, and appointed Cashier, Royal Naval Hospital, Great Yarmouth- 'whilst there his services in coming to the aid of the Medical Officer in charge, who was being attacked by a lunatic, earned for him the thanks of the Admiralty; the outburst of the lunatic on that occasion was the cause of the death of one of the patients, and both the Medical Officer and Mr. Cummins themselves sustained serious injury.' (Naval Who's Who refers); appointed Paymaster of Contingencies, Admiralty, March 1890; promoted Paymaster Captain and Hon. Paymaster-in-Chief, 14.10.1914.

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