Private Walter Robert Collar

Army Number : 102659 (formerly 45730 Suffolk Regiment and 17243 Royal Sussex Regiment)

Battalion : 2/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Ridgewell, Halstead, Essex. Son of Walter and Mary Collar, of Ridgewell, Halstead, Essex. He was a farm labourer prior to enlisting at Warley, Essex, 2nd April 1917 into the Suffolk Regiment. He went to France 7th September 1917 and was transferred to the Royal Sussex Regiment 19th September 1917. He suffered shrapnel wounds to his scalp 18th October 1917. He was transferred to England 24th October 1917 and returned to France 28th March 1918. and was transferred to the 2/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 30th March 1918 and suffered shrapnel wounds to his buttocks 18th April 1918. He was transferred to 62 Casualty Clearing station and Bandaghem, Belgium where he died of these wounds 19th April 1918, aged 19.

Buried : Haringhe (Bandaghem) Military Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 2. Row F. Grave 31.

Private Walter Robert Collar is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Ridgewell War Memorial, Ridgewell, Halstead, Essex.