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COLLINS, William Gilbert
(Service number 6/3280)

Aliases	Gill
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Corporal

Birth

Date	02/10/1895	Place of Birth	Temuka

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Waimataitai
Occupation	Plumber
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	.Single. William married Edith Frances FERGUSON in England in 1919.
Next of Kin	Mrs F. A. COLLINS (mother), Waimataitai, Timaru. Later Mrs E. F. COLLINS (wife), 29 Packington St, Islington.
Religion	Non-Conformist
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	8th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	13 November 1915
Transport	Willochra or Tofua
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Regiment

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals	1914-15 Star; British War 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	22 November 1919	Reason	Termination of period of engagement

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

12 July 1916 at Rouen he was reported sick.

Post-war Occupations

Plumber

Death

Date	22 March 1965	Age	70 yrs
Place of Death	7 Rathmore Street (residence), Timaru
Cause
Notices	Timaru Herald, 23 March 1965
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Services Section, Row 118, Plot 7
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

William Hilbert COLLINS, known as Gill, was the son of William Thomas and Florence Annie (nee STOREY) COLLINS. He returned home to Timaru, NZ, on 24 September 1919 by the 'Corinthic', after more than 4 years of service, 3 years and 314 days of that overseas in Egypt and Western Europe. He was educated at Waimataitai and Timaru Main schools. Before his return to New Zealand and discharge Gill was married on 23 July 1919 in Holburn, London, to Edith Frances FERGUSON, who who survived him with their family - Doreen, Shirley and Mervyn.

Sources

Cenotaph Database [07 November 2013]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ Ref. AABK18805 W5530 0027173) [27 June 2014]; ; TDC headstone image, Timaru Cemetery [07 November 2013]; Timaru Herald, 25 September 1919 (Papers Past) [07 November 2013]; Timaru Herald, 23 March 1965 (Timaru District Library) [27 June 2014]

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