Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Great War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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pte. John Joseph Collins

British Army 2nd Btn. Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

from:St Helens

(d.23rd Apr 1917)

John Collins was my great grandfather. He originally came from St.Helen's in Lancashire. We know he was a glass blower living with his wife and two boys in Glasgow. He joined the 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland regiment and fought and died at Arras on 23rd April 1917. My grandfather, his eldest son, remembers his mother receiving the telegram while sitting in their one room tenement, he was four his brother was two.



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