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Sapper ERSKINE GILBERT COLLINS

Service Number: 2471
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Engineers

2nd Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 01 October 1917

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MENIN ROAD SOUTH MILITARY CEMETERY

II. I. 24.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Awards Military Medal
  • Additional Info Son of William Gilbert Collins and Thomasina Maria Collins, of "Stretton," Prospect Rd., Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
  • Personal Inscription PEACE PERFECT PEACE ONLY SON OF WILLIAM G. AND THOMASINA M. COLLINS
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Buried or commemorated at

MENIN ROAD SOUTH MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1658
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