Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Captain Sir Allan Collymore, East Lancashire Regiment, later Chief Justice of Barbados and a Judge of the West Indian Court of Appeal. A First-Class Cricketer for Barbados, he later served as President of the Barbados Cricket Association

1914-15 Star (Capt. E. A. Collymore. E. Lan. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. E. A. Collymore.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953, very fine (6) £180-220

Sir Ernest Allan Collymore was born in Barbados on 4 February 1893, the eldest son of Ernest and Mary Collymore, of Barbados, and was educated at Harrison College, Barbados, and Merton College, Oxford. Commissioned into the East Lancashire Regiment, he was promoted Captain on 8 July 1915 and served with the regiment during the Great War in France. Transferring to the General List on 10 August 1916, he relinquished his commission with the rank of Captain on 6 June 1919. Called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1920, he served with the Colonial Legal Service as a Magistrate in Barbados from 1925, and was appointed the island’s Attorney-General in 1928. Appointed King’s Counsel in 1933, he served as Chief Justice of Barbados and a Judge of the West Indian Court of Appeal from 1936 until his retirement in 1957, for which he was knighted in the 1943 New Year’s Honours List (London Gazette 1 January 1943).

Sir Allan Collymore was a keen cricketer, who played one first class match for Barbados in the 1922-23 season, and scored 30 in his team’s innings victory against a Trinidad side that included the great Learie Constantine. He later served as President of the Barbados Cricket Association from 1944-59. He died in Barbados on 23 June 1962.