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Auction: 17002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 171

Three: Private A. Mayoh, Royal Marines: the recipient of a judicial birching at the tender age of 5 years, he served three tours of duty in France and Flanders and ended his active service career on being admitted to an R.N. Field Ambulance in January 1918

1914-15 Star (DEAL 3417-S L. Cpl. A. Mayoh, R.M.); British War and Victory Medals (DEAL 3417 L. Cpl. A. Mayoh, R.M.), generally very fine (3)

Albert Mayoh was born in Bolton, Lancashire in March 1895. According to a report in The Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, dated 1 November 1900, he appears to have been given 'four stripes of the birch' with three other boys, for changing rail signals: judicial birching was normally administered by a policeman, either in a room in the court or at the nearest police station.

Mayoh enlisted in the Royal Marines at Liverpool in January 1915 and served three tours of duty in France and Flanders, his service record noting that he was wounded - 'shock' - on 1 January 1916, in addition to being admitted to 150 R.N. Field Ambulance in January 1918, from whence he was evacuated home. He was demobilised in July 1919; sold with copied service record and newspaper report.


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