Sidney COLLIS

COLLIS, Sidney

Service Number: 5307
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 18th Infantry Battalion
Born: Not yet discovered
Home Town: Islington, Newcastle, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Carpenter
Died: Killed in Action, France, 3 May 1917, age not yet discovered
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, St Mark's HR Islington, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)
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World War 1 Service

22 Aug 1916: Involvement Private, 5307, 18th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: ''
22 Aug 1916: Embarked Private, 5307, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wiltshire, Sydney

Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board

Sidney COLLIS, (Service Number 5307) born in Sydney, was a 26-year-old who declared his ‘trade or calling’ as ‘carpenter and joiner’ when he enlisted in the AIF in Sydney in 1916. He also stated that he had been an apprentice in the NSW Government Railways.

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Biography contributed by John Oakes

Sidney COLLIS, (Service Number 5307) was born in Sydney. He enlisted at 26 years of age to the AIF in Sydney in 1916.. He declared his occupation as ‘carpenter and joiner. He also stated that he had been an apprentice in the NSW Government Railways.

He embarked from Sydney in August 1916. He landed in England in October. He was sent to France in November,. He joined his battalion in France in January 1917.  He spent some time in hospital with ‘trench feet’ in February-March, and a week with ‘otitis media’ later in March. He rejoined his unit on 1 April.  On 3rd May he was reported wounded in action. One month later this was amended to wounded and missing. In August the report was amended to ‘killed in action’. 

He has no known grave. He is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Somme, France.

- based on notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board

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