A fine Collection of Medals to the Sherwood Foresters

Five: Lieutenant & Quartermaster T. Collins, South African Light Horse, late 2nd Battalion Derbyshire Regiment

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (305 Cr. Sergt., 2/Derby. R.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Sikkim 1888 (1956 .... ergt., 2nd Bn. De....); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (Lieut., S.A. Lt. Horse); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lt. & Qr. Mr., S.A. Lt. Hrs.); Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed, edge bruising, contact marks, nearly very fine and better (5) £550-650

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A fine Collection of Medals to the Sherwood Foresters.

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Thomas Collins attested for the Derbyshire Regiment on 23 July 1875. Served with the 2nd Battalion in Egypt 1882 and in Sikkim 1888. Appointed Sergeant-Major in March 1889 and discharged to a pension at Sitapur, 18 September 1896. On the outbreak of the Second Boer War he joined the South African Light Horse at Cape Town on 13 November 1899 and retired on the termination of the war. During the Great War he served with the North Staffordshire Regiment, 22 March 1915-21 February 1920. On 20 August 1920 he was appointed Coroner’s Officer at Derby, a post he held until his retirement in 1931.

With copied research.