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COLLINS, Bernard
(Service number 6/1264)

Private B Collins — From" "South Canterbury Roll of Honour", published 1916 by the South Canterbury Caledonian Society. (South Canterbury Museum 17/15)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	19/11/1893	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date	20 June 1914	Age	20 years 11 months
Address at Enlistment	61 North Street, Timaru
Occupation	Watchmaker
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Andrew COLLINS (father), 61 North Street, Timaru
Religion	Roman Catholic
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	2nd Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	14 December 1914
Transport	Verdala or Willochra or Knight of the Garter
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With	2nd S C Reg.
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns	Gallipoli
Service Medals	1914-15 Star; British Medal; Victory Medal
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

May 24th & June 18th 1915, reported wounded. (Father had received reply that he was progressing favourably.)

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	25 April 1915	Age
Place of Death
Cause	Killed in action
Notices	Auckland Star, 30 June 1915 [22 July 2013]; Timaru Herald, 29 June 1915
Memorial or Cemetery	Lone Pine Memorial, Lone Pine Cemetery, Anzac, Turkey
Memorial Reference	17
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru

Biographical Notes

Son of Andrew & Margaret COLLINS, 61 North Street, Timaru. Brother of Andrew Paul killed in action. Member of 2nd S. C. Regimental Band. Employed in Mr O'Leary's jeweller's shop.

Sources

Cenotaph Database [21 July 2013]; N Z Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ Ref. AABK 18805 W5530 0026999) [July 2013]; CWGC [28 July 2013]; Timaru Herald, 24 May 1915, 29 June 1915, 23 May 1917 (Papers Past) [18 November 2013, 07 November 2013].

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