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VC911   John Collins

Name   John Collins   No.   12118, 340 & 355652  

VC Issue No.   911   Awards   VC    DCM   MMM

Regiment   Royal Welch Fusiliers, 25th (Service) Battalion

Later   

Now   1st Battalion, The Royal Welsh

Rank VC Won   Acting Corporal

Rank End Of Career   Sergeant

Place Of Birth   West Hatch, near Taunton, Somerset, England

Place Of Death   St Tydfil's Hospital, Merthyr Tydfil, Mid Glamorgan, Wales

Buried/Location Ashes   Pant Cemetery, Tai Yr Efail, Merthyr Tydfil, Mid Glamorgan, Wales

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   8 September 1951

Headstone   Headstone    Plot/Grave no.   RC Section, Plot XE, Grave 44

Gazetted   18 December 1917

VC Presented   1 June 1918, King George V, Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Pant Cemetery, Tai Yr Efail, Merthyr Tydfil, Mid Glamorgan, Wales

P  Memorial Stone, St Tydfils Church, Merthyr Tydfil, Mid Glamorgan, Wales

Memorial Plaque, Cyfarthfa Castle Museum, Merthyr Tydfil, Mid Glamorgan, Wales

P  Collins Walk (no sign) & Collins Court, Kingsmill Road, Hightown, Wrexham, Clwyd, Wales

By The Way…

In the war, he served in nearly every theatre, France, Belgium, Greece, Turkey, Syria and Israel, and before the war in South Africa and India

VC Held By

Regimental Museum of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, The Queen's Tower, Caernarfon Castle, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales

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BORN   10 September 1880

DIED   3 September 1951    AGE   70

VC Won   31 October 1917   AGE   36

Place VC Won   Wadi Saba, Beersheba, Palestine, now Israel

War/Campaign   First World War 1917