Lance Corporal Harry Collins

Army Number : 21485

Battalion : 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Derby. Son of Henry and Mary Jane Collins, of 11, Grove Street, Derby. He enlisted at Derby and went to France 16th December 1915. He was killed in action, 14th February 1916, aged 19, during heavy German shellfire and the explosion of a German mine, prior to the German attack of the front line trenches, near the canal to the south-east of Ypres, Belgium.

Commemorated : Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.