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Trooper CHARLES JAMES COLLINS

Service Number: 7260490
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

144th (8th Bn. The East Lancashire Regt.) Regt.

Date of Death

Died 18 July 1944

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. MANVIEU WAR CEMETERY, CHEUX

I. E. 5.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Harold Edmund and Bessie Collins; husband of Vera Phyllis Collins, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.
  • Personal Inscription SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF A BELOVED SON, HUSBAND AND FATHER "THY WILL BE DONE"
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Buried or commemorated at

ST. MANVIEU WAR CEMETERY, CHEUX
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2182
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