3rd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Arthur Collins was born at Hamfallow, Berkeley in 1899, and according to the 1901 Census Arthur was listed as Arthur Hopkins, nephew to William and Esther Collins.
William was employed as a cattleman farmer, he and his wife had three children of their own, all older than Arthur.
Sometime before the 1911 Census the family moved from Berkeley to King’s Stanley and Arthur was now registered as William and Esther’s son. William was still employed as a cowman.
The National School Admission Register shows that Arthur was admitted to King’s Stanley school on 20 September 1909 and he had previously been registered at Sharpness school. His address was given as King’s Stanley when he left school on 1 August 1912.
No service records survive for Arthur, except for the Medal Records, which record that Arthur would have been due two campaign medals; the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
The 3rd Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment was a training regiment based at Newhaven in Sussex. Unfortunately Arthur died, age 20, at the Military Hospital in Newhaven of Tubercular Meningitis on 5 October 1918, before ever serving abroad.
Arthur is buried in St George’s Churchyard, King’s Stanley, where a CWGC headstone marks his grave. He is commemorated on the King’s Stanley village War Memorial.
Researched by Dave Earle March 2021