{"id":1722,"date":"2020-04-19T19:04:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T08:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au\/?page_id=1722"},"modified":"2020-04-19T19:04:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T08:34:12","slug":"frederick-norman-collisson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au\/?page_id=1722","title":{"rendered":"Frederick Norman Collisson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Text and Image: Claire Woods<\/em>
Image of FN Collisson<\/em>: Virtual War Memorial. <\/em>https:\/\/vwma.org.au\/<\/em><\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anzac Day\n2020 will be a different experience for all of us. We will not rise before Dawn\nto make our way to the local war memorial. There to wait silently with our\ncommunity in remembrance of all those who have served our country in time of\nperil.  We are asked by our local RSL to\npause by the memorial to reflect on their sacrifice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the\nCrafers War Memorial on Piccadilly Road, there are the names of ten men from\nthe district who did not return. Here is the story of one of those young men\nwho went away to war.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Frederick Norman Collisson<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Frederick Norman Collisson (regimental number 2613b) was one of the two sons of Rev. Reginald Collisson of the Church of Epiphany, who enlisted [i]<\/a>. Collisson\u2019s enlistment record gives details of a young man of 21 years, with brown hair and grey eyes, and of slight build (being only 5ft 2inches tall and weighing merely 122 lbs \u2013 55 kgs). He is described as a \u2018station hand\u2019 and his mother is listed as his next-of- kin.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After leaving St Peters College, and apparently not being\nable to settle down, he left home to work as a station hand in Western\nAustralia, and also as a hand on a pearling boat out of Broome.  He returned home and apparently fell in love\nwith a young woman who he planned to marry. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 2 August 1915 he enlisted. In October, after a regulation\ntraining period in Adelaide, he embarked with the 6th<\/sup> Reinforcements\nof the 27th<\/sup> Battalion on the HMAT Benalla<\/em>, bound (after further\ntraining in Egypt) for Gallipoli. However, after the evacuation of troops from\nGallipoli, the reinforcements were re-allocated to the depleted ANZAC battalions.\nCollisson now assigned to the 10th Battalion, arrived in France in April 1916\nwhen the AIF began its long campaign in France and Belgium.  Thus, it was that machine gunner Collisson\nexperienced the trials of the Somme and Flanders battlefields. It was at Hill\n60, near Ypres, on 1 October, under fire from German machine gunners and\nsnipers Frederick Collisson was killed when hit by a \u2018Whizzbang\u2019 or shell. Red\nCross witness statements by fellow soldiers reported that their mate \u2018Colly\u2019\ndied instantly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His father received formal notification of his death,\ndetails of the location of his grave, copies of the five witness statements,\nand a list of his personal effects. These were then sent to his mother as his\nnext of kin. Most touchingly, Collisson\u2019s brief Will had specified that his\npocket bible and a copy of Kipling\u2019s Seven\nSeas<\/em>, which were to be found in his \u2018right hand breast pocket\u2019, should be\ngiven to a Miss Phillips of Kermode Street, North Adelaide.  This then was the girl whom he loved so\ndeeply. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Anzac Day, we remember all the men and women from the\nHills who volunteered to serve our country, and especially do we remember those\nwho did not return to the safety and love of their family and community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crafers War Memorial<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Lest We Forget  <\/strong>
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[i]<\/a> Donald Collisson, a school master\naged 26 years, enlisted in the 28th<\/sup> Battalion and was repatriated to\nAustralia in early 1918, having been seriously wounded by a gunshot wound to\nthe head on 13 October 1917. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you have stories or memories of Frederick Collisson or other people memorialised on the Crafers War Memorial? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact us at mldhsgateways@mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au<\/a> or drop into the History Centre at the Coventry Library, 63 Mount Barker Road, Stirling.
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Text and Image: Claire Woods Image of FN Collisson: Virtual War Memorial. https:\/\/vwma.org.au\/ Anzac Day 2020 will be a different experience for all of us. We will not rise before Dawn to make our way to the local war memorial. 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