Second Lieutenant Samuel William Collins

Army Number: n/a (formerly Lance Corporal 41976)

Battalion: 2/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Thomas Hunt and Sarah Wilson Collins, of 15 Layton Avenue Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Husband of Mary Collins, of Alphen House, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. He was a teacher prior to enlisting. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant 2/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 1st March 1917. He was killed in action, 21st March 1918, aged 28, whilst holding the line near Noreuil, France on the opening day of the German Spring Offensive or (Kaiserschlact)

Commemorated: Arras Memorial, France. Bay 7.

Second Lieutenant Samuel William Collins is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Brunt’s School War Memorial, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Queen Elizabeth Boys’ Grammar School War Memorial, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Nottingham University O.T.C. War Memorial, Nottingham.
St. Mary Magdalene War Memorial, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
Titchfield Park War Memorial, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.