Name
Karl Woodbine Collins
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/12/1918
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
1591
Hertfordshire Yeomanry
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GREAT AMWELL (ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST) CHURCHYARD
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Great Amwell Village Memorial,
St John the Baptist Church Memorial, Great Amwell
Pre War
Born in 1884 in Walworth, London son of Arwid Lionel Beale and Eliza Collins and baptised on 10 Mar 1889 in Whitechapel.
He was living in Whitechapel in 1891 and 1901. Later he lived in Highfields Cottage, Ware, Herts. He married Adelina Annie Kay in 1908 and they lived at The Mount, Great Amwell. He was a bank clerk working in London.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in Hertford 4 Dec 1913. He trained at Luton Hoo and was mobilised on 5 Aug 1914.
He embarked for Egypt on 10 Sep 1914 and was promoted to L/Cpl on 5 Oct 1915 and Cpl on 15 Jan 1916. He returned home on 10 Mar 1916 having contracted tuberculosis and was discharged from the Army on 3 Apr 1916.
Additional Information
Brother of Arwid Woodbine COLLINS who died on 24 Aug 1915 and is listed on this same memorial.
Karl is buried in Great Amwell (St. John the Baptist) Churchyard and his headstone bears the inscription:
IN MEMORIUM
KARL WOODBINE COLLINS 1ST Hrs Ymy
KARL WOODBINE COLLINS 1ST Hrs Ymy
IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE GREAT WAR
AGED 35
AGED 35
Karl's brother Arwid who died in Gallipoli is also commemorated on the headstone.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
