BORN EAST THORP, POCKLINGTON 1882. SON OF WILLIAM JOHN COLLINSON (1848-1938) & KEZIA ANN COLLINSON (1857-1914) OF CARLTON LANE, ALDBROUGH, WTHERNWICK, NEAR HULL. HE EMIGRATED TO MASTERTON, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND. LIVED AT BURNBRAE, CLAREVILLE, WAIRARAPA, HAWKES BAY, (1914 ELECTORAL ROLL). A SINGLE MAN. HE WORKED AS A FARM HAND. HE JOINED THE 1ST WELLINGTON INFANTRY REGIMENT AND SERVED AS A SNIPER, IN THE NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, IN FRANCE, ON 08/06/1917, AGED 35. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, WILLIAM, IN ALDBROUGH. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE MESSINES RIDGE (N.Z.) MEMORIAL, BELGIUM AND THE ALDBROUGH VILLAGE WAR MEMORIAL.
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, EDGAR HUGH COLLINSON, MM, 12/830, 12TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, DIED OF WOUNDS, AT ETAPLES, ON 03/07/1917, AGED 25. HE WAS BROTHER TO LILY, MRYTLE, OLIVE, JAMES AND VIOLET. ANOTHER BROTHER, PRIVATE J.W. COLLINSON, YORK & LANCASTER REGIMENT, WAS BADLY GASSED IN THE WAR. THE THREE BROTHERS ARE FEATURED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 08/08/1917.
HIS SISTER LIVED AT 129 NEWBRIDGE ROAD, HULL.
