COLLINS, Edlin Gray
| Service Number: | NX7995 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 May 1941, Paddington, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) |
| Born: | Bourke, New South Wales, Australia, 5 August 1909 |
| Home Town: | Aberdeen, Upper Hunter Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Freezer - A.C. & F. Company, Aberdeen |
| Died: | Illness, Burma, 21 September 1943, aged 34 years |
| Cemetery: |
Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, (Burma) A9 B 1 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, NX7995, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) | |
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| 12 May 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX7995, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2), Paddington, NSW |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Elton George COLLINS and Fannie Beatrice nee LEWES, of Bourke, New South Wales, Australia; husband of Martha May COLLINS nee SCRIVEN, of Scone, New South Wales.
DEARLY LOVED & MISSED BY LOVING WIFE AND DAUGHTER JILL...R.I.P.
Married nurse Martha May Scriven in 1938.
Employed by A.C. and F Company, Aberdeen.
Served in Middle East.
Survived by his wife Martha and young daughter, his mother and sisters Myra Tidmarsh, Nancy Gray, brothers Elton, Audley, Harold, Alick,Athol and Ivor.
DVR. E. G. COLLINS SUCCUMBS
IN P.O.W. CAMP.
Mrs. Collins, of Scone (formerly Sister M. Scriven, of Aberdeen), was apprised that her husband, Driver Edlin Gray Collins, died of illness, whilst a prisoner of war in Burma, about March, 1943. Son of Mrs. F. Collins, of Bourke, and a former employee of the A.C. and F. Coy. Ltd., Aberdeen, the late Dvr. Collins was on his way home from the Middle East, where he had been on service with the A.I.F., when his ship put in at Java and he was taken prisoner by the Japanese.
Survived by his widow and young daughter, as well as his mother, sisters and brothers, the bereaved ones will be commiserated with in their great sorrow.
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