David Collins

Private David Geoffrey Colins was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born on 9 August 1899, at Pancras, the son of Edwin Hyman Simeon and Ada Eleanor Collins (née Stanford), of Middlesex and Northampton, respectively. Both of his parents were teachers, his father also being a scholar and author on Hebrew and Jewish studies.Rubinstein, William D. (2011), The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History, p. 177. 
Collins died on 11 October 1918, of wounds received on the Western Front, while serving with the 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards.
He is buried in Delsaux Farm Cemetery, Beugny. His Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry includes the line "Poet, Botanist, Mathematician and Peace Lover".
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Collins, David Geoffrey, cwgc.org. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
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Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:Buried in France
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