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Military service
Age:
22
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Sussex Regiment
Division:
3rd, attd. 2nd Bn.
Enlistment:
Ontario
Death:
August 15, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XVI. C. 20.
Additional information
Son of the Rev. Canon and Mrs. Percy H. Collins, of Lydd, Kent.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 570 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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CATERPILLAR VALLEY CEMETERY Somme, France
Longueval is a village approximately 13 kilometres east of Albert and10 kilometres south of Bapaume. Caterpillar Valley Cemetery lies a short distance west of Longueval on the south side of the road to Contalmaison. Within the cemetery is Caterpillar Valley (New Zealand) Memorial, which commemorates those officers and men of the New Zealand Division who fell in the Battles of the Somme, 1916, and whose graves are not know.
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