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Military service
Service number:
R/74329
Age:
19
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
September 12, 1941
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 61.
Additional information
Son of Patrick and Theresa Mary Collins, of Billing's Bridge, Ontario, Canada.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins
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Memorial
Inscription to the memory of Joseph Louis Collins on the family grave monument in the cemetery of St Patrick's Church- Fallowfield, Nepean, Ontario -
Newspaper clipping
Source: Hamilton Spectator September 20, 1941 -
Document
This account of the flying exercise in which Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins and his four crew mates (Flight Sergeant Robert Francis Stephens, Flight Sergeant Robert Laing Roy Younger, Sergeant Alexander George Batchen, all of the RCAF, and Sergeant Mark Seymour Dawe of the RAF) disappeared is taken from a brief biography of Sergeant Alexander George Batchen posted at this website. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper Clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Letter
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Letter
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Letter
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Joseph Louis Collins
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 26 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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