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COLLINGS, Bertram Charles
(Service number 39170)

Aliases
First Rank	private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	11/05/1884	Place of Birth	Cromwell

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	single
Next of Kin	Frederick Arthur Collings (father) Post Office, Hawea Flat
Religion	Roman Catholic
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	NZ Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	21st Reinforcements, Auckland Infantry Battalion, A COmpany
Date	19 January 1917
Transport	HMNZT 74, Ulimaroa
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Plymouth, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Auckland Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion, 15 (North Auckland) COmpany

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
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

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	3 October 1917	Age	32
Place of Death	Ypres, Belgium
Cause	KIA
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Tyne Cot Memorial, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebek, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Memorial Reference	NZ Apse, Panel 1
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru

Biographical Notes

son of Frederick Arthur and Sarah Ann Collings, 122 North St, Timaru

Sources

war record open in Archives

External Links

Researched and Written by

Liz Shea, SC branch NZSG

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