Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Volunteer Force Long Service Medal (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Pte. R. O. Collyer, The Bombay Bn. A.F.I.) impressed naming, officially renamed, good very fine £40-£50

Provenance: J. Tamplin Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, June 2009.

R. O. Collyer was resident in India for many years. He was employed by the Port Trust in Bombay, and first appears in Thacker’s Directory of 1917 as the Railway Audit Inspector, Port Trust, Ballard Road, Bombay. He was later employed as Junior Assistant Accountant, and then Assistant Accountant in the Chief Accountant’s Department (awarded VFLSM in 1924).