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Fireman and Trimmer Patrick Collins

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Military service

Age: 23
Rank: Fireman and Trimmer
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: SS Empire Kingsley (Greenock, Scotland) (168972)
Birth: January 20, 1918 Belfast, Northern Ireland
Death: November 28, 1941

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His full name is Patrick Joseph Collins.


Son of Owen Collins and Winnifred McCormack, of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Brother of Sapper Owen Collins of the Royal Canadian Engineers Corps and Private Mac Collins of the 1st Battalion of the Governor General's Foot Guards. They fought in Europe and survived the war.


He served for a time with the Régiment blindé de Trois-Rivières, Québec before transferring to the Canadian Merchant Navy. He drowned at sea on 28 November 1941.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 268 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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