World War 1, Western Australia, Souvenir Patriotic Hankerchief, 1765 COLLINS, 10 Light Horse

Troope Alfred Collins enlisted at Blackboy Hill on May 5, 1915. A 29 years old, butcher, he born in Stanley, Tasmania on 8 December 1886 the fourteenth child of John Collins and Mary Ann Scrivener. He married Elizabeth Mary Collins in 1908. They had no children at the time of his enlistment and I haven’t found evidence of any subsequent children. The couple moved to Katanning area after the war and lived at Riverside Farm, Tambellup for many years. By 1958 they moved to Kalamunda where he died on 9 July 1972. He had an elder brother called William Charles, also born in Stanley. Trooper Collins is a distinct possibility as the recipient of this handkerchief but there is no definitive link from him to the donor John Collins. Further research required to fully ascertain identity of Alfred Collins.