Collier Charles Ernest Pte. 4687440
Personnel Entry
Name Collier Charles Ernest
Army number 4687440
Rank Pte.
Decorations None as far as is known, beyond his WW2 service medals.
Date of birth 5/3/1909 at Mexborough, Yorkshire.
Age 80 years of age at the time of his death.
Unit Enlisted in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - date not known (Enlistment Books missing). Transferred to The Durham Light Infantry 18/4/1940. Posted to the 10th Bn DLI. Served B.E.F. Taken Prisoner of War 20/5/1940 at Auberville, France (notification of PoW status received 12/7/1940). Repatriated at the end of the War. Relegated to the Class Z Army Reserve 22/1/1946.
Company/Battery C Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role
Joined Brigade 18-Apr-1940.
Promotions
Wounded Not so far as is known.
Prisoner of War Captured at Auberville, France. Held in Stalag 20A Thorn (7) and 20B. Prisoner Number 7836.
Died/Killed in action Died 26/8/1989 at Doncaster. Buried in Doncaster's Thorne Cemetery (see family headstone above).
Home address Father - Albert Edwin Collier. Mother - Elizabeth Collier (nee Davies). In January 1938 he married Rachel Brickley in Thorne, Yorkshire.
Source table 10DLI
Thanks are due to the Find a Grave Website for access to the photograph of Private Collier's family headstone.
