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Note: See: http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00684674&tree=LEO
George Nicholas Collins (1913-1979)
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6ft 2ins at tallest. Red-Green Colour-blind. Learned to drive in the Army. Never took a civilian driving test. Had a 'welding' scar on his left shoulder. On duty on horse-back, it was common practice to reduce the rifle weight by impaling the bayonet in a nearby piece of wood.
On one occasion, his horse reared and travelled the length of The Mall on its hind legs without him falling off.
Fan of the comedian Tommy Cooper who was also in the Guards.
1913/??/?? Of Plymouth, Devon
1920/??/?? of Rush, Ireland
1921/??/?? Easter
1921/06/?? While his father returned to Bodmin, Cornwall, to marry his third wife, (Mar 1921?) the IRA / Sinn Fein attacked and burnt down the Rush Coastguard Station. He, his brother and sister, staying with neighbours at the time, only managed to escape by hiding in the furrows of a nearby potato field.
This may have been the attack reported on June 20 1921 by The Times, in which 4 coastguard stations in County Dublin were burned the previous weekend: Skerries, Loughshinny, Rush and Rogerstown.
1921/06/19 Aged (8?) of ? -
1921/??/?? of Services Hostel, near Waterloo Bridge, London
1921/12/?? of Dover, Kent
1923/??/?? Dover photograph
1923/??/?? of Studland, Dorset (23-24)
1925/??/?? of Swanage, Dorset (25-26)
1928/??/?? joined Guards when Royal Navy would not consider a colour-blind recruit
1931/04/26 (Trooper?), aged (18?) of ? -
1938/??/?? left Guards at end of service
1938/??/?? Worked welding rifles for Lee Enfield for about a month
1939/??/?? rejoined Guards for war effort
1940/08/03 Trooper, aged 28, of Knightsbridge Barracks
1942/12/02 Trooper 304910 (Royal Horse Guards), welder, of 2 Blondin Avenue, Ealing, Middlesex
1945/??/?? demobbed early at end of service
1946/03/30 production manager for dress manufacturer, Lilian Amy Eliot q.v.
194?/??/?? Working for Edward Evans / John Blundell (Furnishings) at Hammersmith
1949/09/01 same?
1951/??/?? ? of ? -
1954/07/07 Worked at John Blundell (Furnishings), Reading. Lived at 49 Berkeley Avenue, Reading
1956/06/07 Worked at John Blundell, Romford, Essex. Lived at 55 Deyncourt Gardens, Upminster, Essex
1958/09/10 Branch Manager (Drapery and Furnishings) ibid
1969/??/?? of Marsh Lane, Cherry Hinton, Cambridge
197?/??/?? Sales Manager of 4 Clarks Close, Ware, Hertfordshire (after 1974)
1977/??/?? same
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