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About Percy Frederick
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NamePercy Frederick
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InitialsPF
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SurnameCollins
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Date of Birth1880
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Birth town
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Resided townNorwich
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Commemorated
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NationalityEnglish
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Place of death
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Date of death
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Marriedyes
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OccupationBricklayers Labourer
Service Information
Army
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Service Number16505
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RankLance Corporal
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RegimentNorfolk Regiment
Biography
It is thought that this soldier was Lance Corporal Percy Frederick Collins serving with the 1st Norfolk Regiment, stationed at Great Yarmouth, who passed through Peterborough East Station on 19 June 1916 and signed the visitors’ book.
On the 4 November 1911, he married Rosetta nee Marshall at Norwich Registry Office. They had three children; William Percy born 16 February 1912, Christmas Robert Albert 25 December 1915 and Elizabeth Rossetta 1 October 1916.
He enlisted in to the Norfolk Regiment on 16 November 1914, aged 34 years, and deployed to France on 31 April 1915. Within a month he suffered a gun shot wound to his right hand and was repatriated to England. Certified ‘no longer fit for military service’ on 29 May 1916, he was discharged on 20 June 1916. This date was a day after he passed through Peterborough East Station and it is conceivable that he was travelling back to Norwich on discharge.
He was awarded the 1914 Star, British War and Allied Victory medals, and the Silver War Badge.
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