Private Frank Collins

Army Number: 2509

Battalion: 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born at Stapleford, Nottinghamshire. Son of William and Betsy Collins, of 9 Bangor Street, Nottingham. Husband of Eliza Ann Collins, of 4, Peel Villas, Querneby Road, Mapperley, Nottingham. He was a landscape gardener for the Borough Council prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He went to France on 25th June 1915 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 36, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery, Foncquevillers, France. Plot 2. Row B. Grave 8.

Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery, Foncquevillers, France.
Private Frank Collins grave

Private Frank Collins is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Andrew’s Church War Memorial, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.