Second Lieutenant William Humphrey Hollins

Army Number : n/a

Battalion : 1/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of William and Mary Hollins, of Berry Hill, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. He was educated at The Grange, Eastbourne and at Winchester College. In 1913 he also won the Senior Brackenberry Historical Scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford. At Winchester, he was a Sergeant in the O.T.C. and obtained Certificate “A” qualifying him for a commission, in 1913. He would have proceeded to Oxford in October 1914, but on the outbreak of war, he was gazetted Second Lieutenant, 1/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, August 1914. He went to France 25th February 1915 and served as battalion bombing officer, going into the line at Kemmel in March 1915. He was killed in action, 15th June 1915, aged 19, during the German attack near Kemmel, Belgium.

Buried: Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, Belgium. Row D. Grave 70.

Second Lieutenant William Humphrey Hollins is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Peter’s Church War Memorial, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.