Name
William Holmes Collinson
about May 1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/01/1916
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Northumberland Fusiliers
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RAILWAY DUGOUTS BURIAL GROUND (TRANSPORT FARM)
I. J. 19.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Aldenham School Memorial, Aldenham
Pre War
William Holmes Collinson, whose father was William Rowley Field Collinson and Mother Sarah Haslewood Collinson was born in 1890 in Enfield, Middlesex. He lived with his grandmother in Beckenham for most of his life, his parents and sister having moved to Hornsea, Yorkshire. After school he was employed as a Printers Representative.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in the Honourable Artillery Company as a private (1019/G) 1st Battalion and he was with them from 18th Sep 1914 to 21st Apr 1915 when he was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant 6th battalion Northumberland Fusiliers serving in the same area of the Front.
He died 5th Jan 1916 near Ypres, Flanders
Biography
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Tony James
