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Auction: 9033 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 92

A Poignant Family Group: Three: Lance-Corporal J.J. Mayle, Cambridgeshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (295 L.Cpl. J.J. Mayle. Camb. R.); British War Medal (295 Pte. J.J. Mayle. Camb. R.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, E.VII.R (295 Pte. J.J. Mayle. Cambs: Btn: Suff: Regt.), with silver top riband bar (stamped ´W.J.D.´, Hallmarks for Birmingham 1907), good very fine Three: Sergeant R.A. Mayle, Royal Flying Corps, Late Durham Light Infantry 1914-15 Star (10780 L.Cpl. R.A. Myle. Durh. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (77560 Sgt. R.A. Mayle. R.F.C.), very fine or better, mounted as originally worn Victory Medal (748253 A.Cpl. H.W. Mayle. 24-Can.Inf.), very fine (7) Estimate £ 180-220 295 Lance Corporal Joseph John Mayle, son of John and Betsy Mayle and husband of Ada Mayle, of 84 Union Lane, Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, and father of Henry William and Roland Arthur Mayle; J.J. Mayle served in the Cambridgeshire Battalion Suffolk Regiment (receiving his T.F.E. Medal in 1909), this became the 1st Battalion Cambridgeshire Regiment and with the outbreak of the Great War Mayle served with the regiment in the French theatre of war from, 14.2.1915; he was killed in action on the Western Front, 17.4.1915, and is commemorated on the Ypres Menin Gate Memorial. 748253 Private Henry William Mayle, born Cambridgeshire, 1897, was the younger son of J.J. Mayle; prior to the outbreak of the Great War he was a resident of Sherbrooke, Quebec; he enlisted with the Quebec Regiment, Canadian Infantry, December 1915; he was killed in action serving with the regiment on the Western Front, 6.11.1917, and is commemorated on the same memorial (the Ypres Menin Gate Memorial) as his father. 10780 Sergeant Roland Arthur Mayle, born Cambridge, 1895, was the elder son of J.J. Mayle; enlisted in the Durham Light Infantry, 1909; at the outbreak of the Great War he served with the regiment in the French Theatre of War from, 4.5.1915; transferred as Sergeant to the Royal Flying Corps, 19.3.1917, and served with the latter in the French Theatre of War, March 1917 - January 1918; Sergeant, Aerial Gunner, 1.4.1918; Sergeant Mechanic, Pilot, 25.6.1918; discharged 21.7.1921.

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