Six: Chief Engine Room Artificer First Class J. Collins, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Natal (168187 E:R:A: J. Collins. H.M.S. Terrible); China 1900, no clasp (J. Collins. E.R.A. 2Cl., H.M.S. Terrible); 1914-15 Star (168187. J. Collins. C.E.R.A., R.N.); British War Medal 1914-20 (168187 J. Collins. C.E.R.A.1. R.N.); Victory Medal 1914-19, naming erased; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (168187 James Collins. E.R.A. 1Cl. H.M.S. Assistance.) mounted court-style for display purposes; together with the recipient’s Aluminium identity disc, light contact marks, generally very fine (6) £500-£700

Dix Noonan Webb, December 2001.

James Collins was born in Portsmouth on 1 April 1871 and joined the Royal Navy as an Acting Engine Room Artificer Fourth Class on 16 June 1892. Confirmed in that rate on 19 September 1893, he was promoted Engine Room Artificer Third Class on 16 June 1895, and served in H.M.S. Terrible from 24 March 1898, being promoted Engine Room Artificer Second Class on 16 June 1899. He served in Terrible during both the Boer War and the Boxer Rebellion, and was promoted Engine Room Artificer First Class on 14 June 1904. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 8 June 1907, and having been advanced Chief Engine Room Artificer First Class on 26 October 1913 saw further service during the Great War, predominately in H.M.S. Assistance. He was invalided out of the service on 20 November 1919.

Sold with copied record of service and medal roll extracts.