Corporal Frederick Henry Stephen COLLISON - 1869828 - 58 Chemical Warfare Coy. Royal Engineers

Died 16 February 1943 Age 28

Corporal Collison was previously commemorated at the Dunkirk Memorial, France

Born in Croydon, Surrey in 1915 as the son of Alfred and Louise Collison (Revell).  He married Edith Lilian Wooller of Dunton Green, Kent in 1936.  While in France with the 58 Chemical Warfare Coy., Royal Engineers, he worked as a mechanic.

Frederick was captured in Renescure, France and deported to Germany into Stalag IXB in Bad Orb-Wegscheide, his POW number was 4057. On the 16^th February 1943 while still a POW, he had a “work accident” and was electrocuted.  He was buried in the communal cemetery in Niederorschel, the area became East Germany and his grave was “lost” for the records of the CWGC until the unification.