THE VILLAGERS OF COLLINGHAM AND LINTON WHO SERVED IN WORLD WAR ONE

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This site commemorates the men and women of Collingham and Linton who served during World War 2. Today we especially commemorate 295844 William Miles Aykroyd of the 5th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, R.A.C. who died on this day in 2007.

Some statistics about the men of Collingham, Linton and Micklethwaite during World War 2

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The villages in 1939

The National Registration of 1939 provides a detailed snapshot of Collingham and Linton and the villagers in 1939. The following statistics are taken from that survey. Records for people born less than 100 years ago are still redacted in the survey and so there are a number of villagers who are categorised here as unknown.

VillageNo. of households
Collingham266
Linton97
CategoryMaleFemaleTotalRedacted
Number5126581396226
No. Single218288506
No. Married279298577
No. Widowed156782
No. Divorced044
Total5126571169226

At the time of the 1939 National Registration there were 363 households registered in Collingham and Linton. In the 1930s, Collingham was transitioning from an agricultural settlement into a commuter village for Leeds and Wetherby, with new housing being built on gently sloping land above the River Wharfe floodplain. The village had increased in size as Brookside and the nearby Garth End, part of a wave of inter-war housing growth, were completed providing much of the village’s council housing stock during the mid-20th century.

At registration, the 363 households contained 1396 people comprised of 512 males, 658 females and there are 226 redacted records signifying that those residents were born less than 100 years ago. These childrens' records will likely be about 50% boys and 50% girls, and given their ages at the time of the registration they are likely to all be single.

There were 4 divorcees, 82 widows/widowers, 577 married people and 506 single people to whom we can add the 226 redacted records, making a likely total of 732 singles.

The statistics shown below are taken from a variety of sources that include, but are not limited to, The 1939 National Registration.

Marital status, rank and deaths

Men and women, married and single all served in World War 2. This section shows some statistics for the people who served.

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What units did they serve in?

The men and women of Collingham and Linton served in many branches of the services and many regiments. Around 11% of these are as yet unidentified, but we continue to work on trying to identify men, women and their service. Please contact us if you have any information that might help. Even the smallest piece of information can help us make a connection.

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Notes: Army units includes those who served in SOE and Indian Army. Navy units include Royal Navy and Merchant Navy. Air Force units includes Air Forces of Commonwealth countries.

Notes: Support units include Labour Corps, Army Pay Corp, Army Ordnance Corps, Army Service Corps and Royal Defence Corps. The term 'Armoured' is used here for members of the Royal Armoured Corps, the Royal Tank Regiment and the Royal Reconnaissance Corps as well as other modern armoured units.

Death Rates per unit

It is interesting to see the proportion of soldiers who died during service for each of the types of unit identified above.

Ages and life timelines

For each identified serviceman or woman, this section shows their year of birth and the timeline below shows when the were born and died.