Name
Neville Lancelot Collins
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/08/1916
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Royal Sussex Regiment
3rd Bn., attached 2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CATERPILLAR VALLEY CEMETERY, LONGUEVAL
XVI. C. 20.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Headstone in All Saints Churchyard, Lydd, Kent
Plaque in All Saints Church, Lydd, Kent
Pre War
Born in 1894 in High Halden, Kent son of the Rev. Canon Percy Herbert and Augusta Charlotte Caroline (Clarke) Collins later of The Rectory, Lydd, Kent. Educated at The Imperial Service College, Windsor.
Wartime Service
Formerly Private 27873 Canadian Infantry he obtained a commission in the Royal Sussex Regiment and was killed in action on the Somme.
Additional Information
Imperial Service College was formed in Windsor in 1912 and then moved to Haileybury College, Hertford Heath in 1942.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
