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11 February 1917: Pte John Elvin Collett

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John was born in 1891 in Castleford in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Before the war he was employed as a house painter, and lived with his parents in Gomersal. Married in September 1914 to Florence they set up home in Tulip Crescent, Hunslet (a suburb of Leeds) where a daughter was born in April 1916. Tragically a son who was born a year later d...