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

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• The villages in 1939
• Marital status, rank and deaths
• What units did they serve in?
• Death rates per unit
• Ages and life timelines

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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. However 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.

Category	Male	Female	Total	Unknown
Number	501	650	1396	245
No. Single	207	280	487	Unknown
No. Married	279	298	577	Unknown
No. Widowed	15	67	82	Unknown
No. Divorced	0	4	4	Unknown
Total	501	649	1150	245

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

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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.

ARMED FORCES	CIVIL DEFENCE
Gender	Gender

 

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What units did they serve in?

The men and women of Collingham and Linton served in many regiments. Around 34% 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.

Male	Female

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.