Mayne was commissioned as a temporary Chaplain to the Forces, 4th class, Army Chaplains Department on 30 October 1914.[7] He was posted on attachment to the 29th Division, and left England for the Dardanelles, via Egypt, on 29 April 1915.[8] He served on operations at Gallipoli and in France and Flanders, winning golden opinions: "I knew him when he was a chaplain in the famous 29th Division, and I recall his holding a confirmation class in a regimental aid post which was little more than a hole in the ground and a few sandbags. He was much loved and known to all of us as a front line padre" (Dr. J.F. Mayne [no relation]).[9] Mayne also met William Wand, a future bishop of London, in Gallipoli. Wand was an unattached chaplain awaiting a placement and Mayne took him temporarily under his wing. "Many years later", wrote Wand in his autobiography A Changeful Place, "when he was Dean of Carlisle, I had the pleasure of meeting him again and thanking him for the good deed done to an impotent man away back in 1915". He was promoted temporary Chaplain to the Forces, 3rd class, on 23 November 1916,[10] and was posted as Senior Chaplain to the Forces to the 33rd Division.
Later career
He was finally released from the Army on 21 January 1919, and returned to Bishops' College, Cheshunt as acting Principal. His contract as Chaplain to the Forces expired, and he relinquished his commission on 28 April 1919, being appointed as an Honorary Chaplain to the Forces, 4th class.[11]
In 1920 he was appointed to succeed the Rev. Canon Frederick Cyril Nugent Hicks as Principal of Bishop's College, Cheshunt, where he remained until 1925, when he was appointed Rector of All Saints’, Poplar, with St. Nicholas’, Blackwall.[12]
He retired in 1959 and died in Hayton outside Carlisle on Friday, 20 July 1962.[17]
Works
He published The Olympian Odes of Pindar (a verse translation) in 1906,[18]The Heroes by Charles Kingsley in 1913,[19]Hawthorne’s Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales in 1915,[20] and The Holy Birth. A nativity play in four scenes in 1947.[21]
Mayne "went to Carlisle with a reputation for scholarship and left after becoming the greatest builder for 100 years."[22]
Personal life
He was married by the Rev. J. Gordon Birch, assisted by Canon Down, in Diddlebury Church in Shropshire on 14 January 1930 to Miss Mary Onslow.[23] The marriage was childless. Mrs Mayne died, aged 87 years, in Carlisle in 1990.[24]
^Ecclesiastical News New Durham Professor And Canon The Times Monday, 13 Aug 1934; pg. 13; Issue 46831; col F
^Ecclesiastical News New Dean Of CarlisleThe Times Saturday, 21 Nov 1942; pg. 6; Issue 49399; col B. "Whitehall, December 4, 1942 The KING has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm, bearing date the 2nd instant, to present the Reverend William Cynl Mayne, M.A., Canon of Durham Cathedral and Professor of Greek and Classical Literature in the University of Durham, to the Deanery of the Cathedral Church of Carlisle void by the death of the Very Reverend Frederick William Matheson, D.D., late Dean thereof" (The London Gazette (4 December 1942), p. 5295)
^Very Rev. Cyril MayneThe Times Monday, 23 Jul 1962; pg. 18; Issue 55450 col D. Death registered in the Border Registration District in the third quarter of 1962
^Reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement (12 April 1907), p. 114
^Edited with introduction and notes by Cyril Mayne. London, Oxford University Press
^Edited with an introduction and notes by Cyril Mayne. Crown 8vo, with eight illustrations
^Words written and selected by the Very Rev. Cyril Mayne. Music composed and arranged by F.W. Wadely. Novello. 98 pages. Dr. F.W. Wadely was the organist of Carlisle Cathedral
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