Frank Edward COLLINS

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COLLINS, Frank Edward

Service Number:	2248
Enlisted:	25 January 1915, Adelaide, South Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	10th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Thornton Heat, Surrey, England, 1889
Home Town:	Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Tram Conductor
Died:	Dysentery, Gibraltar, 18 October 1915
Cemetery:	Gibraltar (North Front) Cemetery C. 3152., Gibraltar (North Front) Cemetery, Gibraltar
Memorials:	Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gilberton Soldiers Memorial Swimming Reserve

World War 1 Service

25 Jan 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Adelaide, South Australia
23 Jun 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2248, 10th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: ''
23 Jun 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2248, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Borda, Adelaide
10 Sep 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, ANZAC / Gallipoli

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

Address
c/o Miss A B Klopper, 32 Gilbert Street, Gilberton, South Australia

Next of kin

Uncle, H G Collins, 52 Hadleigh Road, Leigh on Sea, Essex, England.

Parents: Charles and Annie Collins.

Previous military service
Served in the London Territorials.

The Register (Adelaide, SA) Wednesday 3 November 1915 p 8 [sic]:

“THE LATE PTE. F. E. COLLINS. Miss A. Klopper, of Gilberton; received news on Saturday that Pte. Frank Collins had died of sickness in the Gibraltar Hospital. Mr. Collins was an employee of the Municipal Tramways Trust prior to his enlisting. He was born in Colchester, [sic] England, and was 26 years of age on the date of his .death. He left South Australia a signaller to the 6th Reinforcements, 10th Battalion.”

Births Dec 1889 Collins Frank Edward Wandsworth
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