The Barrett J. Carr Collection of Boer War Medals

Four: Leading Stoker F. Coller, Royal Navy, late Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (34736 Pte. F. Coller, 29th Coy. Imp. Yeo.); 1914-15 Star (K. 1279 F. Coller, Act. L. Sto., R.N.); British War amnd Victory Medal (K. 1279 F. Coller, L. Sto., R.N.), the first with re-riveted suspension claw, contact marks and one or two edge cuts, thus fine, the remainder nearly very fine or better (4) £140-160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Barrett J. Carr Collection of Boer War Medals.

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Frank Coller was born in Lymington, Hampshire in November 1877 and served in the 29th (Denbighshire) Company, 9th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, during the Boer War, a fact further confirmed by an endorsement on his Naval service record, ‘Can count 1 year and 198 days Army service towards Naval pension’.

Commencing his career at sea as a Stoker 1st Class in H.M.S. Minotaur in April 1908, he was serving as an Acting Leading Stoker aboard the battleship Magnificent on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914. His subsequent wartime appointments comprised the sloop Daffodil (June to November 1915), the receiving ship Colleen at Queenstown, Ireland (November 1915 to October 1917), the depot ship Hecla (October 1917 to April 1918), and the cruiser Gibraltar (April to November 1918). Having gained advancement to substantive Leading Stoker back in January 1916, Coller was pensioned ashore in February 1926.