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Pte. John Albert Collier
Canadian Expeditionary Force 5th Brigade Machine Gun Coy.
from:572 Wentworth Street, North, Hamilton, Canada
Jack Collier was born in London, England and emigrated to Canada in the care of the Salvation Army in 1910. He enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 18th of August 1915, embarking aboard the S.S. Adriatic with the 86th Machine Gun Battalion for Britain on 19th May 1916. He was initially stationed at the Canadian Machine Gun Depot, Risborough Barracks, in Shorncliffe, Kent and then later at Crowborough, Sussex. He was sent to the Canadian Machine Gun Pool at Camiers, France on 18 April 1917 and served with the 2nd Division's 5th Brigade Machine Gun Company for 4 and a half months.
Jack was severely gassed near Cite St. Pierre, near Lens on 21st of August 1917 during the Battle of Hill 70. He was returned to Britain for treatment and convalescence before being transferred to the 11th Battalion, Canadian Engineers for the duration of the War, serving in France for an additional 20 months. Jack embarked for Canada from Liverpool on 8 August 1919 along with his English bride and their six-week old daughter.
When WWII broke out, Jack guarded Canadian port and electrical facilities in the service of the Ontario Provincial Police and later enlisted in the 35th Company of The Veterans' Guard of Canada, escorting German P.O.W.s from Britain to Canada and serving as a guard at several P.O.W. camps in northern Ontario, Canada.
Pte. Leonard Collier
British Army 4th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment
(d.29th Sep 1918)
Pte. William Edwin Collier
British Army 1st Btn. Grenadier Guards
from:Bristol
William Collier was born in about 1876 in Bristol. He attested for Short Service in 1900 and served in the 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards in the Second Boer War. For his service there, he was awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal with the Cape Colony and South Africa 1902 clasps. In May 1903, he transferred to The 1st Class Army Reserve.
On 5th of August 1914, at London, he was mobilized into the 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Per his Medal Rolls Index Card, Pte. Collier's qualifying date for the 1914 Star was 12th of November 1914, there was no notation that indicated qualification for Clasp and Roses, but serving in a line unit, it is very likely that Pte. Collier would have been under fire from German mobile artillery prior to the midnight 22nd November cut-off date. If so, he would have probably qualified for this distinction, but he may have never applied for this. In addition to the 1914 Star, he was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
According to records, Hewas discharged from the Grenadier Guards on 28th of May 1919, but he attested to the 53rd Company, Labour Corps the next day, 29th of May 1919. His service number in the Labour Corps was 695795. Pte. Collier was discharged from C Coy, Eastern Command Labour Centre on 29th of March 1920. Research sources included British Army Pension Records, UK Military Campaign Medal and Award Rolls, 1793-1949 (2nd Boer War), UK WW1 Medal Rolls Index Card, 1914-1920 and UK WW1 Service Medal and Award Rolls, 1914-1920. Lastly, it is highly possible that Pte. Collier would have participated in the unofficial 1914 Christmas Truce.
2nd Lt. Joseph Henry Collin VC.
British Army 4th Btn King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
from:Harraby, Carlisle
(d.9th Apr 1918)
Joseph Henry Collin was awarded his commission on the 28th August 1917 He was the son of Joseph and Mary Collin (nee McDermont) of 8 Petteril Terrace, Harraby Carlisle, he was born 10th April 1893 in Jarrow.
He was 24 years old and a Second Lieutenant in the 1/4th Battalion King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment when he was awarded the VC for his actions on 9th April 1918 at Givenchy France.
Citation: For most conspicuous bravery, devotion to duty and self-sacrifice in action. After offering a long and gallant resistance against heavy odds in the Keep held by his platoon, this officer, with only five of his men remaining, slowly withdrew in the face of superior numbers, contesting every inch of the ground. The enemy were pressing him hard with bombs and machine-gun fire from close range. Single-handed 2nd Lt. Collin attacked the machine gun and team. After firing his revolver into the enemy, he seized a Mills grenade and threw it into the hostile team, putting the gun out of action, killing four of the team and wounding two others. Observing a second hostile machine gun firing, he took a Lewis gun, and selecting a high point of vantage on the parapet whence he could engage the gun, he, unaided, kept the enemy at bay until he fell mortally wounded. The heroic self-sacrifice of 2nd Lt. Collin was a magnificent example to all. (The London Gazette, 25 June 1918)
His Victoria Cross is displayed at The King's Own Royal (Lancaster) Regiment Museum, Lancaster from the 26th August 2006. The bronze memorial memorial plaque to Second Lieutenant Joseph Henry Collin VC of 4th Battalion King's Own Royal Regiment, was successfully bid for by the Regimental Museum at a recent auction in Carlisle. Thanks to public donations, the Museum fought off three other bidders to secure the plaque for Ć‚Ā£2500. It will now be displayed alongside Collin's VC.
Joseph is buried in Vieille-Chapelle New Military Cemetery Lacouture and is commemorated in the Palmer Hospital in Jarrow.
2nd Lt. Joseph Henry Collin VC
British Army 4th Btn. King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
(d.9th April 1918)
Joseph Collin was killed in action 9th April 1918, aged 24 and buried in the Vieille-Chapelle New Military Cemetery in France.
An extract from The London Gazette, dated 25th June, 1918, records the following:- "For most conspicuous bravery, devotion to duty and self-sacrifice in action. After offering a long and gallant resistance against heavy odds in the Keep held by his platoon, this officer, with only five of his men remaining, slowly withdrew in the face of superior numbers, contesting every inch of the ground. The enemy were pressing him hard with bombs and machine-gun fire from close range. Single-handed 2nd Lt. Collin attacked the machine gun and team. After firing his revolver into the enemy, he seized a Mills grenade and threw it into the hostile team, putting the gun out of action, killing four of the team and wounding two others. Observing a second hostile machine gun firing, he took a Lewis gun, and selecting a high point of vantage on the parapet whence he could engage the gun, he, unaided, kept the enemy at bay until he fell mortally wounded. The heroic self-sacrifice of 2nd Lt. Collin was a magnificent example to all."
Pte Cornelius Collind
British Army 1st Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment
from:Deptford, London
(d.26 Oct 1914)
Gnr. Joseph Colling
British Army 241 Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Aston, Birmingham
Pte. Arthur Collinge
British Army 6th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
(d.26th Feb 1917)
Arthur Collinge served with the 6th Battalion East Lancashire Regiment during WW1 and was killed in action on the 26th February 1917. He is commemorated on the Basra War Memorial in Iraq.
Pte. Arthur Collinge
British Army 6th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
(d.26th Feb 1917)
Arthur Collinge died 26th February 1917 and he is commemorated on the Basra War Memorial in Iraq.
Stoker 1st Class. David A. Collingham
Royal Navy HMS Bergamot
(d.13th Aug 1917)
Able Sea. Thomas Bosworth Collings
Royal Navy HMS Contest
from:Bradmore, Nottinghamshire
(d.18th Sept 1917)
Pte. Wallace Collings
British Army South Lancashire Regiment
(d.27th October 1917)
Lt.Col. John Stanhope Collings-Wells VC, DSO.
British Army 4th Btn. Bedfordshire Regiment
from:High Wycombe, Bucks
(d.27th March 1918)
John Collings-Wells was killed in action on the 27th of March 1918 and is buried in Bouzincourt Ridge Cemetery, France. He was the son of Arthur and Caroline Mary Collings-Wells, of Brand's House, Hughenden, High Wycombe, Bucks.
An extract from The London Gazette, dated 23rd April, 1918, records the following:- "For most conspicuous bravery, skilful leading and handling of his battalion in very critical situations during a withdrawal. When the rearguard was almost surrounded and in great danger of being captured, Lieutenant Colonel Collings-Wells, realising the situation, called for volunteers to remain behind and hold up the enemy whilst the remainder of the rearguard withdrew, and with his small body of volunteers held them up for one and half hours until they had expended every round of ammunition. During this time he moved freely amongst his men guiding and encouraging them, and by his great courage undoubtedly saved the situation. On a subsequent occasion, when his battalion was ordered to carry out a counter-attack, he showed the greatest bravery. Knowing that his men were extremely tired after six days' fighting, he placed himself in front and led the attack, and even when twice wounded refused to leave them but continued to lead and encourage his men until he was killed at the moment of gaining their objective. The successful results of the operations were, without doubt, due to the undaunted courage exhibited by this officer."
Alexander A. Collingwood
Palmer's Ship Yard
Alexander A. Collingwood died during WW1. He was on Palmer's Staff and is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph (south face) Jarrow.
Pte. Frederick Collingwood
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Served with 18th & 20th DLI
L/Cpl. William Collingwood
British Army 19th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Shiremoor
(d.9th August 1918)
William Collingwood was killed in action on 9th August 1918, aged 38 years. He was a member of Z Company. William is buried in Arneke British Cemetery, Nord.
He was the son of the late William and Joan Collingwood of Lemington, Scotswood, Northumberland and the husband of Beatrice Ann Collingwood of Hedley's Buildings, New York, Shiremoor, Northumberland.
Pte. A. Collins
Australian Imperial Force. 47th Btn.
Pte. A. Collins of 47th Battalion, AIF was wounded in the left forearm and elbow at Messines on 8th of June 1917, he was admitted to 9th Field Ambulance, then to 1 Australian Casualty Clearing Station at Steenwerck and was sent on to No.11 Stationary Hospital at Rouen.
Cpl. Albert James Collins MM.
British Army 12th Btn. Kings Regiment (Liverpool)
from:Rogerstone Wales
Corporal Albert Collins was my Granddad's uncle, unfortunately I have no stories to tell.
Pte. Alfred Collins
British Army 10th Btn. Cheshire Regiment
from:Ellesmere Port
I believe my Grandfather Alfred Collins was in the 10th Btn Cheshire Regt. According to my father, he returned from the war with a wooden leg, and not in the best of health or mood. Within a year of returning he sadly lost his wife in childbirth, which, not surprisingly,was the last straw. He left home and was not seen again. It is said he went to, and died in Ireland, but I have not been able to trace him as yet.
Pte. Alfred Collins
British Army 5th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
from:Little Compton
(d.25th September 1915)
Alfred Collins was born in Little Compton in the county of Oxfordshire in January 1896. He was the son of George Hubert and Lily Collins.
He enlisted into the British Army in Oxford in October 1914. He gave his age as 19 at the time of his enlistment even though he was in fact only 18 at the time. His occupation at the time of enlistment was listed as a plough boy. He was single at the time of enlistment. He entered the British army as Private 15281 into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He was posted to the 5th (Service) Battalion, A Company.
He embarked to France with the battalion and landed at Boulogne on 21st of May 1915. The Battalion formed part of the 42nd brigade in the 14th (Light) Division. The Battalion took part in an attack on enemy positions at Bellwaarde Farm near Ypres in Belgium on 25th of September 1915. It sustained heavy losses during the attack. Private 15281 Alfred Collins was reported missing presumed killed in action during that attack on Bellewaarde Farm on 25th of September 1915.
He has no known grave and so is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres in Belgium. He was posthumously awarded the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal and the Allied Victory Medal. The medals would have been forwarded to his next of kin after the war.
Pte. Alfred Collins
British Army 8th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Old Windsor, Berkshire
(d.26th Apr 1917)
Pte. Arthur Thomas Collins
British Army 24th Battalion Royal Fusiliers
(d.17th April 1917)
Arthur Collins served with 24th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers.
Fmn. Bernard Collins
Mercantile Marine S.S. Newlyn
from:South Shields
(d.2nd Aug 1917)
Bernard Collins was born in Jarrow, son of the late Peter and Margaret Collins. He is recorded as Bernard Collins age 36 Coalminer Hewer at Colliery is with his widowed mother Margaret Collins at 10 Wilson Street, South Shields on the 1911 census.
Bernard is remembered on the Tower Hill Memorial.
Spr. Charles Sweeney Collins
Australian Imperial Force 4th Broad Gauge Railway Operating Company Australian Engineers
from:Brisbane, Queensland
My Great Uncle Charles Collins was an Engineer (Sapper) in the Australian 4th Broad Gauge Railway Operating Company in Ypes, France during WW1, from 1916 to 1919. He was admitted to this hospital with trench fever from 4th of April 1918 to 15to April 1918, when he was discharged, and proceeded back to his unit in France.
L/Cpl. Charles Collins
British Army 3rd (Special Reserve) Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment
from:Bristol
Fmn. Cornelius Collins
Mercantile Marine S.S. Barrowmore
from:Jarrow
(d.19th February 1918)
Cornelius Collins served as Kelly with the Mercantile Marine on the S.S. Barrowmore of Liverpool. He died aged 19 when the ship was torpedoed without warning and sunk by a submarine off Bishop Rock. Son of Francis and Elizabeth Collins of 4 Quay Corner Jarrow, Cornelius Collins is listed as age 12 at School living with his parents Francis and Elizabeth Collins and family at Quay Corner, East Ferry, Jarrow on the 1911 census.
He is remembed on the Tower Hill Memorial.
Sgt. Dennis Collins
British Army
from:Wapping, London
My Dad's cousin, Dennis Collins suffered Gun Shot Wound to his right thigh in 1917 in France. He had a 30% disability, and was discharged 30th of July 1918 as Physically unfit for War Sevice.
Pte. Edmund Collins
British Army 3rd Btn. Royal Irish Regiment
(d.7th November 1918)
Private Collins was 32 when he died and is buried In the South-East part of the Tipperary (St. John's) Famine Graveyard, Co. Tipperary, Ireland.
Pte. Edwin Collins
British Army 10th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Selby North, Yorkshire
(d.1st July 1916)
Pte Frank Collins
British Army 8th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment
(d.8th June 1917)
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