Sydney's Story.
Birkenhead News 20 October 1917WEST KIRBY SOLDIER KILLED.
Mr. And Mrs. H. Collins, Acacia Grove, West Kirby, have received official intimation that their third son, Private Sydney Collins, South Lance Regt., was killed on Sept. 20th while doing stretcher work, the young soldier, who was only 19 years of age, had been in France but 12 days, after seven months’ training. As a boy he attended the Higher Elementary School, He was also a member of the West Kirby St. Andrews Church Choir and Sunday School. Letters of sympathy from his captain and from the War Office have been received, also one from a Birkenhead chum. Mr. And Mrs. Collins have two other sons serving, while a fourth has been in the Army and has been medically discharged, but has been seven times examined.
Private Sydney Collins is remembered on the West Kirby War Memorial and also on the war memorial in St. Andrews Church, West Kirby.
Sydney Collins’ photograph and newspaper article by Chris Booth