A military B.E.M. group of eight awarded to Chief Petty Officer F. M. Collett, Royal Navy

British Empire Medal, (Military) E.II.R. (C.P.O. Frederick M. Collett, D/JX. 127077.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Minesweeping 1945-51 (D/JX. 127077 C.P.O. R.N.); Coronation 1953, unnamed; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, with Second Award Bar (JX. 127077 P.O., H.M.S. Hastings) mounted for display; together with Royal Life Saving Society Medal, silver, inscribed, ‘F. M. Collett 1931’; Order of Buffaloes Badge, silver and enamel, ‘Primo’ ‘Sir George Cook Lodge No. 3670’, reverse inscribed, ‘Presented to Bro. Frederick M. Collett C.P. by the Sir George Cook Lodge No. 3670 raised on the 26 July 1938’; Order of Buffaloes Cross, silver and enamel, h/m. Birmingham 1937, reverse inscribed, ‘Bro. F. M. Collett, Royal Naval Lge.’, top bar, ‘Malta Province’, some with contact marks, very fine and better (11) £450-500

B.E.M. London Gazette 10 June 1954 (Birthday Honours).

Notes with the lot state that Collett served on H.M.S. Gipsy in various locations before the war, including Malta, and that he was on board the ship when she was mined and sunk off Harwich on 21 November 1939. Awarded the B.E.M. in the Birthday Honours of 1954 when he was serving on H.M.S. Loch Veyatie.

With several photographs of the various ships on which he served, taken at Malta and at sea; also with copied gazette extract.