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Sergeant BASIL OSBORN COLLINS

Service Number: 920126
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

158 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 26 July 1942

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

EINDHOVEN (WOENSEL) GENERAL CEMETERY

Plot JJ. Grave 87.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Pte. Harry Osborn Collins, Bucks Bn. The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (killed in action, Belgium, 22nd August, 1917), and of Ada Mary Collins, of Bitterne Park, Southampton.
  • Personal Inscription WITH A TENDER SMILE, A WAVE OF THE HAND, HE HAS WANDERED INTO AN UNKNOWN LAND
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