Julie Lawton has submitted the following:
Researching family history. Name Collins, Thomas. Found Thomas Collins on Wingate Memorial.
Information-Thomas Collins 1096657, 419 Battery, Bedfordshire Yeomanry Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. Died 12/9/1944. Age 28. Born 1916. Prisoner of War drowned on Japanese transport ship Rakuyo Maru, torpedoed by USS Pampanito off Hainan. 488 Prisoners of War and crew drowned.
Thomas Collins' address: 8 Heath View Road, Wingate.
Thomas Collins is remembered at Wingate on W121.04 and in Station Town on S136.01
