Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The mounted group of nine miniature dress medals attributed to Warrant Officer Class 1 A, Collie, Royal Engineers

Military Medal, G.V.R.; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 slip-on clasps, Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R.; Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R.; Belgium, Croix de Guerre, ‘A’ cypher. mounted as worn, in Baldwins, London case, nearly extremely fine and better (9) £40-60

M.M. London Gazette 24 February 1916. ‘1644 Engineer Clerk Quartermaster-Serjeant Alexander Collie, Royal Engineers.

M.S.M. London Gazette 1 January 1917. ‘1644 Supt. Cl. A. Collie, G.H.Q., R.E.’

Alexander Collie was born in Portsmouth and enlisted at Aldershot. He served as a Sergeant in the 7th Field Company Royal Engineers in the Boer War and was entitled to the Q.S.A. with 3 clasps - Belmont, Modder River and Orange Free State and K.S.A. with 2 clasps. In the Great War, as a Warrant Officer Class 1 with the Royal Engineers (Railway Transport Establishment), he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 9 August 1914 and is confirmed as being entitled to a 1914 Star. For his wartime services he was awarded the Military Medal, Meritorious Service Medal and French Medaille Militaire. He died of wounds in France/Flanders on 3 June 1918, aged 42 years and was buried in the Etaples Military Cemetery. He was the husband of L. Collie of 398 Thorold Road, Ilford, Essex. Sold with copied research.