239553 Pte. John Joseph Collins British Army 2nd Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (d.23rd April 1917) John Collins was married to Eleanor Collins and had two boys - John (Jack) Joseph (my grandad) and Terence Collins. The family were originally from St Helens in Lancashire but had moved to Glasgow for work. John Collins worked as a glass blower at the time of enlistment when he was in his thirties.
He died age 35 and my grandad, age 4 at the time, remembered the day the the telegram arrived and listening to his mother sob into her apron at the table in the room where they lived. John died in the 2nd Battle of Arras on 23rd April 1917 and is buried in the Heninel-Croiselles Road Cemetery.
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