Sergeant Pilot Edward Frank Collins

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Reference WMO/264706

Address:

St. James Church

Silver Street

Dursley

GL11 4JE

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Other Canvas
  • Timber Timber (any)
Lettering: Painted
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: A Painting and wooden board in the town church remembers Sergeant E.F. Collins killed in action 6 April 1942 He was Pilot of IX Sqn Wellington X3415 WS-? that had departed Honington at 2336 for Ops Cologne Close to the target it was engaged by units of the VII Flak Div, hit and shot down The aircraft crashed at Sechtem railway station 12km NW of Bonn Germany at 0142 with the loss of all six crew
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GIVEN BY HIS LOVING WIFE/IN MEMORY OF/SERGEANT-PILOT/EDWARD FRANK COLLINS/AGED 27 YEARS/KILLED IN ACTION APRIL 6TH 1942/'Greater love hath no man than this,/that a man lay down his life for his friends.'

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