Vice Admiral John Augustine Collins, KCB, CB

Date of birth	1899-01-07	Deloraine, TAS.
Date and unit at enlistment (ORs)	1912-12-31	Enlisted in the RAN.
Other	1913	Joined the first class of cadets at the Royal Australian Naval College, Geelong.
Other	1916	Graduated from Royal Australian Naval College.
Other	1917	Served on HMS Canada.
Date promoted	1918	Appointed sub lieutenant.
Date promoted	1919	Appointed lieutenant.
Date returned to Australia	1921	Joined HMAS Melbourne. he then attended several gunnery courses in England.
Other	1926	Rejoined Melbourne as a gunnery officer.
Other	1927	Lieutenant commander appointed to HMAS Renown as Naval Liaison Officer for the visit of the Duke and Dutchess of York.
Other	1932	Attended the Naval Staff College at Greenwich.
Other	1933	Began work as a commander in the Admiralty's Plans Division.
Other units	1935 - 1936	Served aboard the HMAS Sydney in the Mediterranean Sea during the Abyssinian Crisis.
Date promoted	1937	Appointed captain in the Admiralty Plans Division.
Other	1938 - 1939	Appointed Assistant Naval Chief of Staff.
Other	1939-11-16	Given command of HMAS Sydney and sailed for the Mediterranean.
Other	1940-07-19	Collins was involved with the sinking if the Italian cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni. Collins recieved a Companion of the Order of the Bath for his service in this action.
Date of honour or award	1940-07-26	Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB).
Other	1941-08	Posted to Singapore as Assistant Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief, China.
Other	1943-04-17	Appointed captain of the HMAS Shropshire.
Other units	1944	Transferred to HMAS Australia.
Date promoted	1944-06	Promoted commodore 1st class.
Date wounded	1944-10-21	A kamikaze attack killed the ship's captain and wounded Collins.
Other	1945-07	Returned to duties.
Date returned to Australia	1946-02
Date promoted	1947	Promoted rear admiral.
Other	1948 - 1955	Appointed Australian Chief of Naval Staff and the First Naval Member.
Date promoted	1950-05	Appointed vice admiral.
Date of honour or award	1951-01-01	Gazetted Knight Comander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE).
Date of discharge	1955	Retired from the Navy.
Other	1956 - 1962	Appointed Australia's High Commissioner to New Zealand.
Date of death	1989-09-03	Sydney, NSW.