William Edward Collins

A Cook with sailing trawler Chrysolite (Lowestoft), William died on 4th of July 1917 at the age of 15. 

William was born at Lowestoft on 11 January 1902, a son of Arthur and Johanna Collins. He was baptised at Saint Margaret's Church, Lowestoft, on 5 February 1902 and his family lived at 11 Factory Street. In 1911 their home was at 37 Beckham Road. Later Johanna lived at 23 Wilde Street, Lowestoft. She remarried in 1920.  

On 4 July 1917 the Chrysolite was fishing four nautical miles off Haisbro Lightship. The trawler struck a mine and sank. Five of the crew were killed. 

William's father, Arthur, and his brother, also named Arthur, both died in 1914 in the loss of the trawler Queen of Devon.