Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (2) (175985 Samuel Colwill, Carp. Mate, H.M.S. Penguin.; 161690 James Rogers, Car. Mate., H.M.S. Pandora.) the first nearly extremely fine, the second very fine (2) £80-£120

Samuel Colwill was born in Plymouth on 18 February 1871, and joined the Royal Navy as Carpenter’s Crew on 1 October 1893. He was advanced to Carpenter’s Mate on 19 June 1903, joined H.M.S. Penguin on 1 September 1909, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 30 March 1910. He was advanced Chief Shipwright on 1 August 1914, and served during the Great War, being killed when the S.S. Maloja (in which he had embarked for passage to his ship H.M.S. Exmouth) was sunk in the English Channel off Dover on 27 February 1916. He is buried in Dover (St. Mary’s) New Cemetery, Kent.

James Rogers was born at Pill, near Louth in Wales, on 17 March 1869 and joined the Royal Navy on 15 July 1891. Advanced Carpenter’s Mate on 7 April 1896, he joined H.M.S. Pandora on 5 September 1905, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 3 August 1906. On 1 December 1912 he was re-categorised as Shipwright 1st Class, and he was pensioned on 26 July 1913. He re-joined the Royal Navy on the outbreak of the Great War, but was not retained, and was discharged to shore on 19 October 1914.

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