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42nd Infantry Brigde 18th Feb 1915 Training 11th May 1915 Preparations 19th May 1915 Transport 20th May 1915 On the Move 3rd Jun 1915 Entrenching   5th of June 1915 Quiet Time   7th of June 1915  Quiet Time 7th June 1915 Casualties 14th of June 1915 Orders   16th of June 1915 Attack underway   16th of June 1915 Attack Made 16th Jun 1915 Attack Made   16th Jun 1915 In Action   16th Jun 1915 Preparations   21st Jun 1915 Orders to Attack   22nd Jun 1915 In Action 22nd Jun 1915 Ammunition Allocation 22nd of June 1915 Attacks ordered 8th July 1915 Reliefs 15th of July 1915 Orders Received   29th July 1915 Shelling 30th July 1915 Attack Made 31st July 1915 Counter Attack 1st Aug 1915 Reliefs 16th Sep 1915 Reliefs 22nd September 1915 Operational Orders Received 22nd Sep 1915 Inspection 23rd September 1915 Order 23rd Sep 1915 Orders   24th September 1915 On the Move 24th Sep 1915 Preparations 25th September 1915 Attack Made 25th Sep 1915 In Action 25th Sep 1915 Attack Made   25th September 1915 In Action 25th Sep 1915 Attack Made   26th Sep 1915 On the Move 28th Sep 1915 Inspection 29th Sep 1915 Inspection 2nd Mar 1916 Objective Captured 5th Mar 1916 Reliefs 31st of May 1916 Artillery Retaliates 11th of April 1917 Reliefs   12th of April 1917 Reliefs   12th of April 1917 Very Cold West Day 24th of April 1917 Orders 24th of April 1917  25th of April 1917    25th of April 1917  26th of April 1917  1st May 1917 Orders Received   1st May 1917 Operation Order No. 2.   10th July 1917 Administrative Orders for the Move.   10th July 1917 Entraining At Candas 19th August 1917 Operational Order 125   25th August 1917 Extract from Operational Order   27th September 1917 Relief Table for O.O.133   13th September 1917 March Table    23rd September 1917 Defence Scheme 27th September 1917 Operational Order 133   27th September 1917 Relief Table for O.O.133   27th September 1917 Operational Order received 10th of October 1917   "Intense Barrage" Endured   19th of October 1917 Relief Ordered   24th of October 1917  Enemy Retaliates   3rd Dec 1917 On the Move   30th January 1918 Preparing for move to Madhij 3rd February 1918 left Dhibban 21st February 1918 Left Madhij at 0800 hours 24th February 1918 Abu Rayat Move to UQBAH 25th February 1918 Bombed by Turkish plane 9th March 1918 Advance to HIT. 26th March 1918 Battle advance 4th Jul 1918  On the Move 5th Jul 1918  On the March 11th Jul 1918  On the March 12th Jul 1918  On the March 13th Jul 1918  On the March 14th Jul 1918  Training 17th Jul 1918  Inspection 31st Jul 1918  Training 1st Aug 1918  Training 1st Aug 1918  Training 5th Aug 1918  Horse Show 16th Aug 1918  Training 17th Aug 1918  Sports 18th Aug 1918  Training 23rd Aug 1918  On the Move   24th Aug 1918  Training   29th Aug 1918  On the Move   30th Aug 1918  In Reserve   31st Aug 1918  In Reserve   If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 42nd Infantry Brigde? There are:91 items tagged 42nd Infantry Brigde available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. Those known to have served with 42nd Infantry Brigde during the Great War 1914-1918. Collins Alfred. Pte. 5th Battalion (d.25th September 1915) All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. 1st of September 2024 marks 25 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time. Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the Great War? 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If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 264989 your submission is still in the queue, please do not resubmit. Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to the Great War. If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great battalion regiment artillery Did you know? We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. 251244 Pte. Alfred Collins 5th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (d.25th September 1915) Alfred Collins was born in Little Compton in the county of Oxfordshire in January 1896. He was the son of George Hubert and Lily Collins. He enlisted into the British Army in Oxford in October 1914. He gave his age as 19 at the time of his enlistment even though he was in fact only 18 at the time. His occupation at the time of enlistment was listed as a plough boy. He was single at the time of enlistment. He entered the British army as Private 15281 into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He was posted to the 5th (Service) Battalion, A Company. He embarked to France with the battalion and landed at Boulogne on 21st of May 1915. The Battalion formed part of the 42nd brigade in the 14th (Light) Division. The Battalion took part in an attack on enemy positions at Bellwaarde Farm near Ypres in Belgium on 25th of September 1915. It sustained heavy losses during the attack. Private 15281 Alfred Collins was reported missing presumed killed in action during that attack on Bellewaarde Farm on 25th of September 1915. He has no known grave and so is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres in Belgium. He was posthumously awarded the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal and the Allied Victory Medal. The medals would have been forwarded to his next of kin after the war. Darren Smith Add to this record.

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