The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Lance Corporal G Collier

Private George COLLIER, S/822, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 5th May 1915.

Born Bethnal Green, E,

Guardian - Mrs M A Burton, 5 Meadows Dwellings, Bethnall Green, E. / 122 Columbia Buildings, Shoreditch.

25th December 1902, Bethnal Green, George Collier, age 26, bachelor, railway porter, 247 Brick Lane, father Alfred Collier, carver?, married Ann Charlotte Dorrell, age 26, spinster, brush drawer, 2 Turville Street, father Thomas Dorrell (deceased), carpenter.

Children - * George Thomas Collier, born 14th December 1903, Shoreditch; John William Collier, born 31st March 1905, Shoreditch; Thomas Alfred Collier, born 5th November 1906, Bethnall Green; Edith Collier, born 27th November 1910, Shoreditch; Arthur Collier, born 12th March 1914, Shoreditch.

1911 Census - 16 Laburnum Street, Shoreditch, London, NE - George Collier, head, age 34, married, railway checker, goods station, born Bethnal Green; Charlotte Collier, wife, age 34, married 8 years, 5 children, 4 still alive, born Bethnal Green; George Collier, son, age 7, born Dalston; John Collier, son, age 6, born Bethnal Green; Thomas Collier, son, age 4, born Bethnal Green; Edith Collier, daughter, age 4 months, born Haggerston; John McCarthy, boarder, age 62, widower, chain maker, born Spitalfield, Irish.

Formerly served in Royal West Kent Regiment, discharged Time Expired.

Enlisted Shoreditch, E, age 38, height 5ft 5⅜ inches, weight 130lbs, brown eyes, black hair, multiple tattoos both arms, defective teeth. Formerly checker.

Home 12th September 1914 to 16th April 1915; BEF 17th April 1915 to 5th May 1915.

12th September 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 9th October 1914, appointed paid Lance Corporal; 12th October 1914, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 17th April 1915, posted BEF & 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment;

22nd November 1915, pension of 27/- a week awarded to widow and five children.

Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 45 & 47, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

* Royal Navy Register of Seaman Services - George Thomas Tugella Alfred Collier

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