Name
William Collins
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/07/1917
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
SD/5740
Royal Sussex Regiment
11th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BUFFS ROAD CEMETERY
D.13
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Weston
Pre War
Born in 1898 in Eastbourne, Sussex, youngest son of George and Rosina Collins. 1911 Census: living with family at The Princess of Wales public house, Post Office Row, Weston, Herts and was a schoolboy.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hitchin. Killed in action during the third battle of Ypres.
Additional Information
War gratuity of £5 awarded to father George. Brother to Albert George Collins also named on the memorial. Another brother, Henry George, was badly injured. He suffered gunshot wounds to his chest and his right arm was amputated.
He died in 1923 of pulmonary tuberculosis at the County tuberculosis sanatorium in Ware, aged 28.
Acknowledgments
Peter Handy, Brenda Palmer
