Private John James Whitehead Collinge
18492 1st East Lancashire Regiment
Killed in Action 1st July 1916, aged 22
Lived at 59 Robinson Street
Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France
Burnley Express 16/8/1916 - 19/8/1916 - 7/10/1916 - 14/10/1916

Young Soldier Killed ( Burnley Express 7th October 1916)

Mrs. Collinge, of 58, Robinson Street, Burnley, has now received official intimation that her husband Pte. John J. W. Collinge (18492), of the East Lancashire Regiment was killed in action on July 1st. Pte. Collinge, who was 22 years of age, was a tinsmith at Messrs. Morris and Wilkinson’s works before enlisting on January 2nd, 1915. He had been on active service over 13 months, and up to the commencement of the big push escaped injury. He was a member of St. John’s R.C. Church, Ivy Street. He was first of all officially reported missing.