Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Lieutenant G. W. Collings, Royal Army Pay Corps, late Royal Artillery
1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial (Lt. G. W. Collings. R.A.P.C.) very fine and better

Three: Lieutenant A. M. James, Royal Army Pay Corps
Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial (Lt. A. M. James. R.A.P.C.) mounted as worn, good very fine

Three: Lieutenant H. S. Harsant, Royal Army Pay Corps
Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (7659721. W.O.Cl.2. H. S. Harsant. R.A.P.C.) mounted court-style for display, nearly extremely fine (11) £140-£180

Guy Ward Collings was born in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, on 3 September 1919. In November 1938 he enlisted in a 4 year engagement with the Territorial Army as Gunner in No. 231 Battery, 58th Sussex Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. Posted to France 27 March 1940, he was evacuated via the Channel Ports on 10 June 1940 and was later posted to the Royal Army Pay Corps in February 1942. Appointed War Substantive Lieutenant 16 November 1942, he served as Lieutenant & Paymaster in Nigeria from August 1943. Awarded the Efficiency Medal in the London Gazette of 6 February 1947, Collings served in Singapore in 1949 as Auditor and later returned to Lagos in 1957 for Colonial Government Administrative employment; he died at Hove on 8 April 1993, his profession recorded as Overseas Civil Servant.

Arthur Maltby James was born in Rhondda, Glamorgan, on 22 September 1913. Appointed to an Emergency Commission in the Royal Army Pay Corps 23 March 1941, he served in Sierra Leone and Nigeria in 1944, and was later awarded the Efficiency Medal on 25 March 1949.

Herbert Stanley Harsant was born in Finsbury, London, on 8 January 1907. He served from November 1939 as Classified Clerk, Royal Army Pay Corps, Group C, Class 2, and was later raised Warrant Officer 1st Class having spent the latter years of the Second World War employed at the Army Branch Post Office in Knightsbridge. Appointed to a commission 26 June 1946, he served at the Jamaican Pay Office in 1947 and later with MELF.

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