Arthur John Collins, D.S.M., WW1 victim

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This sailor was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, but lost his life when the trawler in which he was wireless operator was mined in the North Sea in 1917.
His name is on the Liverpool Town Hall roll of honour and the Royal Navy memorial at Plymouth but there are no family details on his War Graves Commission entry.
The Naval Medals & Awards Roll gives his year of birth as 1887. He may have been a merchant seasman pre-war, as he was in the Royal Naval Reserve.
Can anyone please throw any light on his life?
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[Bertieone]

A starter,

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Possible marriage,

Arthur J Collins, Elsie Warnock,
Birkenhead, 1913.
8a 1049.

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1911
RG14 P11999.


Arthur Collins
Age in 1911:
25
Estimated birth
abt 1886

Relation to Head
Casual
Male
Birth Place
Liverpool
Civil Parish
Westbury
Wiltshire
England
Street address
Westbury and Whorwellsdown Union Workhouse, Westbury, Wilts
Single
Seaman Merchant

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Thank you, Bert, for the kick-off. I burned a bit of oil last night and found the navy record for Collins, as well as his baptism in Liverpool. The RN record shows his parents were in Scorton, Lancaster when he joined up in 1915, and this ties up with his name on that local memorial.
His wife appears to have re-married after his death and moved to Ireland.
I can now be sure that we have the right man, and his local links, on the Town Hall roll of honour.

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[Katie]

Royal Naval Reserve
H.M. Trawler "Kelvin."
Collins
411/WTS
Arthur John
Wireless-Telegraph-Officer
Born, Liverpool
7th July 1917 Killed
Son of Charles and Florence Collins. D.S.M 10th-July-1917 Liverpool Echo

I would have replied sooner but my lap top is sick at the moment.

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Thank you that extra. I have rounded this one off now.

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