Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Nine: Major E. R. Collins, Royal Signals

India General Service 1936-39, 2 clasps, North West Frontier 1936-37, North West Frontier 1937-39 (2313552 Cpl. E. R. Collins, R. Signals); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (Major E. R. Collins, R. Sigs.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (2313552 Sjt. E. R. Collins, R. Signals); United States of America, Bronze Star, the reverse engraved, ‘Edward R. Collins’, mounted as worn, surname officially corrected on the seventh, generally good very fine (9) £500-600

Edward Rollin Collins was commissioned from the ranks in the Royal Signals in December 1941, as a Lieutenant and Quarter-Master, and was awarded his Bronze Star on the recommendation of Lieutenant-General M. C. Dempsey in July 1945, for services in the North-West Europe campaign (T.N.A. WO 373/147 refers). He was finally placed on the Retired List in the honorary rank of Major in October 1958.

Note recipient also wearing GSM ribbon in photograph