Name
George Albert Collins
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/06/1917
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Able Seaman
J/20812
Royal Navy
H.M.S. “Tartar”
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
24
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon, St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon, Not on the Hertford memorials
Pre War
Born on 13 Sep 1895 in Hertford, Hertfordshire son of Albert Douglas and Agnes Collins later of 113 Lord Street, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire and later still of 106 Thanet Road, East Cliff, Ramsgate, Kent. He was a carpenter.
Enlisted on 23 Oct 1912 in Portsmouth and first served on Vivid 1.
Wartime Service
He joined the Tartar on 6 Jun 1917 and was killed eleven days later by an explosion due to a mine laid in the channel.
The ship did not sink but was towed back to Dover and then Chatham for repairs. About 19 men were killed.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
