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Robert Blair Mayne British Army DSO and Three Bars Mediterranean and European Theaters 1941–45
born fighter who thrived in the eye of the storm, Robert Blair Mayne was known to fellow soldiers as “Paddy.” Born Jan. 11, 1915, in Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland, to a large Protestant family, Mayne was a quiet young man with literary ambitions who studied law at Queen’s University