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.

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. 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.

CategoryMaleFemaleTotalUnknown
Number5016501396245
No. Single207280487Unknown
No. Married279298577Unknown
No. Widowed156782Unknown
No. Divorced044Unknown
Total5016491150245

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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GenderGender

 


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.

MaleFemale

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.