James Floyd – Collins – North Eastern Railway – Private – 24/05/1915

James Floyd – Collins – North Eastern Railway – Private – 24/05/1915

James Floyd

Collins

North Eastern Railway

Durham Light Infantry, 7th Battalion [Northumberland Fusiliers, 1st/5th Battalion]

Private

2431

South Dock

Assistant Signalman

24/05/1915

North Eastern Railway Magazine: January, 1916, p9.

Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial

23 foster son of Michael & Agnes Giloran of 1 Bede Crescent, Holy Cross, Willington Quay, Northumberland. (Probably, born North Shields, enlisted Wallsend).<br />Private J. W. Collins joined the N.E.R. service on December 10, 1910, as a lamp lad at South Dock,<br />and was made assistant signalman on September 19, 1913. Being already a member of the Territorials,<br />he was called up when war broke out, and volunteered for foreign service. He went to France with his regiment on April 19, 1915.<br />(One of three members<br />of the 7th Durham Light Infantry (T.) who had been missing since May 24, 1915. The Officer Commanding and other members of the regiment who returned to England, held out little hope of their turning up. On May 24 (Whit Monday) the<br />Germans made use of poisonous gas and various battalions of Northern Territorials who had recently<br />reached France, were hurried to the front and suffered severely.)

St Paul's Cathedral Order of Service 1919, North Eastern Railway Magazine.

23/05/2016

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