Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Transvaal (2229 Trpr. M. J. Collins, New Zealand M.R.) extremely fine £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals for the Anglo-Boer War.

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Maurice John Collins, born in Hyde, Central Otago, employed as a Brewer, living in Adelaide Road, Wellington, he attested for the 5th New Zealand Contingent for South Africa, at Wellington, on 27 March 1900, aged 29 years. In South Africa he served in the 5th New Zealand Mounted Rifles.

At the time of the Great War he was employed as a Cordial Manufacturer. He enlisted into the New Zealand Field Artillery on 19 April 1915. Served with the 6th Howitzer Battery at Gallipoli and later served in Egypt, England and the Western Front. He died on 15 June 1927.

With copied Boer War and Great War service papers and Q.S.A. roll extracts and other research - also entitled to the ‘South Africa 1901’ clasp and the British War and Victory Medals. With a W.W.1 postcard photograph of an artillery piece with New Zealander crew.