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Private GEORGE WILLIAM COLLINS

Service Number: 486615
Regiment & Unit/Ship

5th Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion

Date of Death

Died Between 01 October 1916 and 02 October 1916

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

REGINA TRENCH CEMETERY, GRANDCOURT

V. E. 19.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of George and Margaret Collins, of Little Current, Manitoulin Island, Ontario.
  • Personal Inscription ASLEEP IN JESUS SWEETLY SLEEP
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Buried or commemorated at

REGINA TRENCH CEMETERY, GRANDCOURT
Somme France
Number of casualties: 2280
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