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Edwin William Collins

10 August 2015 by SWM

edwin william collins named on stockwell war memorial london sw9
Edwin William Collins. Photo with kind permission of Emilia Alchin.

E. W. Collins
Service no. 479594
Private, London Regiment, 1st/24th Battalion
Then Labour Corps, transf. to (720746) 798th Area Emp. Coy. attd. Emp. S.B. Unit.
Died age 26 on 2 August 1918
Son of Edwin Collins, of 18 Elwell Road, Clapham
Remembered at Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille, Pas de Calais, France

British Army Service Records 1914-1920
Edwin Collins joined up on 5 September 1914 and survived nearly to the end. He was admitted to 2 Can. General Hospital in Boulogne on 1 August with multiple bomb blast injuries including a factured skull. His condition was “dangerous,” says the record. He died the following day.

Edwin was unusually tall – 5 feet 11 inches – although not very broad. His chest measured only 37 inches with 2 inches expansion. His physical development was “good”.

His final effects were sent on to his father, who was also called Edwin: pouch, purse, ring, testament, 2 leather cases, 2 numerals, cards, photos, letters, 2 French books, 3 religious books, 4 coins, disc.

Edwin was one of six children – 5 girls and a boy. His father, also called Edwin, lost his wife Frances in 1898 but remarried in about 1899.

Information from the 1911 census
Edwin William Collins was 19 in 1911, working as a railway porter, and living with his father, stepmother and sister in 6 rooms at 18 Elwell Road, Clapham (now disappeared). Edwin Collins, 61, was a retired policeman working as a “check-taker” at a theatre. He was born in Brenchley, Kent. His wife, Louisa, 53, to whom he had been married for 12 years was from Old Southgate (north London). Frances Maud Collins, 24, was a restaurant waitress. Like her brother she was born in Clapham.

Filed Under: C names, Featured, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1918, age 26, Died, France

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