Name
Alfred Ernest Payne
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/07/1916
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Able Seaman
179058
Royal Navy
(RFR.B/5404). H.M.S. "Pembroke"
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HANWELL (KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA) CEMETERY
166. 86.
United Kingdom
UK & Other Memorials
Royal Masonic School Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born on 31 Oct 1878 in Piccadilly, London son of Richard Thomas and Annie Payne. Educated at the Royal Masonic School 1888-93.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in the Royal Navy on 6 Jun 1894 and first served on HMS Pembroke. He served his fourteen years, returned to the service on the outbreak of WW1 and served on a destroyer in the North Sea. He was discharged as medically unfit in May 1915 from an illness which he contracted in the Dardanelles but rejoined at the end of that year and served on Phaeton which brought down Zeppelin L 19. He died of wounds
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Old Masonians Association
