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Auction: 12002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 36

Five: Armourer S.K. Colwill, Royal Navy Egypt 1882-89, dated, one clasp, Alexandria 11th July (S.K. Colwill. Armrs. Crew. H.M.S. "Cygnet"); Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, seven clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Diamond Hill, Belfast, Johannesburg (108207 Arm: S.K. Colwill, H.M.S. Doris); British War Medal (108207 S.K. Colwill. Armr. R.N.); Naval Long Service & G.C., V.R. (S.K. Colwill, Armr, H.M.S. Royalist.); Khedive´s Star 1882, light contact marks overall, otherwise good very fine (5) Estimate £ 1,000-1,200 108207 Armourer Samuel Kingston Colwill, born Stoke Damerel, Devon, February 1859; enlisted in the Royal Navy in H.M.S. Cambridge, February 1879; served in H.M.S. Cygnet, November 1879 - January 1883; promoted Armourer, October 1879; served during the operations in South Africa in H.M.S. Doris, November 1897 - May 1901, and mentioned in Captain J.E. Bearcroft´s Despatch, 24.9.1900: ´I beg to especially bring to your notice for favourable consideration the zeal and energy of S. Colville [sic], armourer, O.N., 108,207, in fitting and adapting wagon wheels and brakes for transporting the gun mounting after a break-down. He has worked indefatigably day and night, and his ingenuity and resourcefulness with the scanty appliances at command are most praiseworthy´ (London Gazette 12.3.1901); served during the Great War at H.M.S. Hecla, October 1914 - September 1917, and H.M.S. Pembroke II from September 1917; discharged, 28.8.1919. Approximately 33 seven clasp QSAs awarded to H.M.S. Doris. Provenance: Glendining, June 1992.

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