Mexborough and Swinton Times, December 1, 1917

Private Alfred Collinson
York and Lancaster

Private Collinson, 111, Queen Street, Swinton, was wounded last February at Fleurbaix, in France, receiving severe shrapnel wounds, in the side.

He has partly recovered, and is now on garrison duty in England. He enlisted in the first fortnight of the war, and had been serving, in France eighteen s months when he received his wounds.

He is 23 years of age, and before the war was employed as a fireman on the Great Central Railway. He is’ a. nephew of Pte. Walter Oliver, killed in action, and referred to in this column