INDIA GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL WITH KACHIN HILLS 1892-93 CLASP TO LIEUT. H.A. TREMAYNE, D.C.L.I.

Henry Arthur Tremayne was born in Exmouth, Devon on 20 May 1866, the son of Henry Hawkins Tremayne and Charlotte Jane Buller and educated at Wellington College, becoming fluent in French and German.

Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant as Gentleman with the 3rd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry on 6 Mar 1886, Tremayne served in Malta and the East Indies and was promoted to Lieutenant on 23 July 1890. Tremayne served with 3 other officers and one Private under the command of Major Arthur William Hammans who led the Namkhan Column from Bhamo on 14 Feb 1893 during the Kachin Hills action, returning on 1 Apr 1893. As a result, he is one of just six men from the D.C.L.I. to receive this clasp (Major A.W. Hammans, Lieut. T.L. Trethewy, Lieut. F.L. Orman and Pte. A. Rose are the others).

Promoted to Captain on 29 Aug 1896, Tremayne served during the Boer War, entitled to the Queen's South Africa Medal with 3 clasps and was placed on Temporary half-pay on account of ill-health on 4 Mar 1903.

Major Hammans would go on to serve during WWI in Bletchley and died in service at the age of 72 years. Tremayne died in Liskeard, Cornwall on 17 Jan 1921, aged 54.