After he had returned home from his war time duties the injuries received during many parachute drops and hard fought battles meant that Mayne could not resume his successful sporting career. He became a member of an expedition to the Falkland Islands in the Antarctic before injuries once again forced him to return to Northern Ireland. His next post saw him become the secretary to The Law Society of Ireland. He continued with many public duties and remained a firm supporter of all his former sporting clubs. He travelled extensively throughout Ireland, Scotland and mainland U.K.
Sadly at the young age of 40 he met his death in a car crash on The Scrabo Road in Newtownards, he was just a few hundred yards from his home on December 1955.

 
A bronze statue was erected in Newtownards town center to his memory and we have established
The Blair Mayne Association with the aims of remembering his great exploits and deeds and ensuring that his great name is never forgotten.

The Blair Mayne Association has been very successful since its inception. It has gone from strength to strength and can now proudly boast of a worldwide membership. In the last two years it has published two books containing many old and unseen photographs of Newtownards. Both of those books have proved to be extremely popular and sold in great quantities. The money raised from the book sales, along with many donations is passed on to a wide range of charities and organisations in the name of Lt. Col. Robert Blair Mayne. To date the Association has been responsible for raising and distributing somewhere in the region of around £40.000.

       
Stewart McClean & Derek Harkness          

Photo presentation to Ards RFC youth. Derek Harkness presenting a cheque from Blair Mayne Association.

         
THE "REAL" WARRIOR
SPORTING, CIVILIAN AND MILITARY
A compilation from newspapers, books and interviews by Stewart McClean

 
This site has been built and maintained
by Stewart McClean & Derek Harkness
of The Blair Mayne Association