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Military service
Service number:
J/16769
Age:
24
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth:
February 21, 1919
Death:
June 27, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10, Column 1.
Additional information
Son of Thomas George and Hewietta Collins. Husband of Dorothy Mabel Collins, of Cornwall, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Albert Charles Collins
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Photo of Albert Charles Collins
Albert Charles Collins as a teenager in his Boy Scout uniform. -
Group Photo
Albert Charles Collins with his wife Dorothy Mabel Collins while on leave at his parents' (Thomas & Etta Collins) home in Cornwall, Ontario, prior to overseas deployment. -
Photo of Thomas and Etta Collins
Parents of Albert Charles Collins. -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Albert Charles Collins is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Albert Charles Collins is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Cornwall (Ontario) Daily Standard Freehold newspaper c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Albert Charles Collins
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Albert Charles Collins
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Albert Charles Collins
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Albert Charles Collins
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Albert Charles Collins
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Albert Charles Collins
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Albert Charles Collins
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 147 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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