Name
Arwid Woodbine Collins
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/08/1915
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Trooper
1969
Hertfordshire Yeomanry
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HELLES MEMORIAL
Panel 18.
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Great Amwell Village Memorial,
St John the Baptist Church Memorial, Great Amwell,
Hertfordshire Yeomanry Memorial, St Albans Cathedral
Pre War
Born in 1895 in Whitechapel, London son of Arwid Lionel Beale and Eliza Collins and living in Whitechapel in 1901, and later of 33, Norwich Rd., Walsoken, Wisbech, Cambs. Educated at Seaford College, Sussex. Lived in Hoe Lane, Ware when he enlisted.
Additional Information
Brother of Karl Woodbine COLLINS who died on 25 Dec 1918 and is listed on this same memorial.
Karl is buried in Great Amwell (St. John the Baptist) Churchyard and his headstone bears a commemoration to Arwid, which reads:
ALSO OF ARWID COLLINS
KILLED IN ACTION AT THE DARANELLES
AUGUST 24TH 1915 AGED 19
"GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS"
KILLED IN ACTION AT THE DARANELLES
AUGUST 24TH 1915 AGED 19
"GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS"
Acknowledgments
Gareth Hughes, Malcolm Lennox
