Private JAMES COLLIS
Service Number: 16525
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Suffolk Regiment
Date of Death
Died 28 June 1918
Age 62 years old
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Awards Victoria Cross
- Additional Info Husband of Adela Grace Collis, of Old Sapper's Lines, Mayo Rd., Poona, India. Native of Cambridge, England.
- Additional Citation note
An extract from "The London Gazette," dated 16th May, 1881, records the following:- "For most conspicuous bravery during the retreat from Kandahar, (Afghan War, on 28th July, 1880), when the officer commanding the battery was endeavouring to bring up a limber, with wounded men, under cross-fire, in running forward and drawing the enemy's fire on himself, thus taking off their attention from the limber."
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