My Family


I'm going to go out on a limb here, and include some information about my family.

I'll have to check with them, but in the meantime I can tell you about my grandfather, William Henry Collins (my dad's father), after whom I am named.

grandpa Grandpa was born in 1889, was a medical officer in WW1, and received
a Distinguished Service Order (DSO) for heroism in 1917 in Belgium.

I have a whole range of information (photos, images, text) about grandpa.

I loaned the Australian War Memorial (AWM) a unique panoramic photograph of the Passchendaele area, taken on 24 October 1917. They have copied the photograph, and it is available on the Internet as a resource for historical purposes. You can search the AWM photograph archives, and look at the whole photograph. (I have included instructions on how to do this further on.) The actual photo is 4.1 metres long. part of panorama photo
I have included a lot of pictures and historical information in my 'Grandpa pages'. To find out more about my grandfather, click HERE.