Name
Percival Collins
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/10/1916
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
79193
Royal Field Artillery
45th Battery, 42nd Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
EUSTON ROAD CEMETERY, COLINCAMPS
I. E. 48.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Christchurch Memorial, Little Heath, Potters Bar, Little Heath & Bentley Heath Memorial, Potters Bar, All Souls Chapel Book of Remembrance, Potters Bar
Pre War
Born in Upper Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire in 1891. Son of Alfred and Sarah Rebecca Collins, of 2, Myrtle Cottages, Cooper's Rd., Little Heath, Potters Bar, Middx. In the 1911 census he was a gardener and living with his parents Alfred and Sarah Rebecca Collins in Coopers Road, Little Heath.
Wartime Service
Attested 14 January 1915 at Edmonton. Landed in France, 22 November 1915. Posted to 45th Battery 42nd Brigade 28 November 1915. This battery was part of the 3rd Division which suggests he was killed in action during the Battle of Ancre Heights.
Acknowledgments
Martin Cope
