Name
Albert Edward Collins
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/09/1915
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
14469
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 41
France
UK & Other Memorials
Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Weston
Pre War
Born in 1894 in Eastbourne, Sussex to George and Rosina Collins. 1911 Census: living with family at Princess of Wales Public House, Weston and working as a farm labourer.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in Hitchin. Edward was posted as missing following an order to quit their line and advance, following the Yorkshire and Wiltshire Regiments up Gordon and Chapel Alleys (trench names).
Additional Information
War gratuity of £3. 10s awarded to mother Rosina. Brother to William Collins also named on the memorial who died in 1917. 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
