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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 295

Four: Paymaster Commander E. A. Bremner, Royal Navy

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Payr. E. A. Bremner, R.N., H.M.S. Sappho); 1914-15 Star (Ft. Payr. E. A. Bremner, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Payr. Commr. E. A. Bremner, R.N.), the Great War awards in their card boxes of issue, together with a set of related miniature dress medals, generally good very fine or better (8)


Ernest Alexander Bremner was born in July 1868 and entered the Royal Navy as an Assistant Clerk in January 1885. Appointed an Assistant Paymaster in July 1889 and advanced to Paymaster in April 1900, he witnessed active service off South Africa in H.M.S. Sappho during the Boer War (Medal); Sappho ran aground while crossing the Durban Bar in June 1901 and had to return home for repairs.

Bremner, who acted as Private Secretary to Vice-Admiral G. F. King-Hall, C.-in-C. Australia in the period 1910-14, appears to have served in the cruiser Diana from March 1914 to August 1916, and ended the war with an appointment at Plymouth as a Paymaster Commander; sold with an original portrait photograph.


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Sold for
£260