collings – Honor Norwalk CT veterans

The Collings’

While cleaning up some older posts on the site, I came across something that I discovered a year or more ago. The father of Herbert Turner Collings Jr. was a POW in World War One. I never dug in enough to do some of the background on Senior, and now have. My number one hopeContinue reading “The Collings’”

PRIVATE HERBERT TURNER COLLINGS SR., U.S. ARMY

September 10, 1893 (Danbury, CT) – November 13, 1961 (Norwalk, CT); 68 years oldMarried Olivia Bliss on October 6, 1921, in NorwalkOne son, Herbert T. Collings Jr. who served in the U.S. Army’s 1st Cavalry Division and was killed in the Philippines during World War II.Last local address: Rowayton Avenue (1910), 19 Hillside Street (1917),Continue reading “PRIVATE HERBERT TURNER COLLINGS SR., U.S. ARMY”

PRIVATE FIRST CLASS HERBERT TURNER COLLINGS JR.; U.S. ARMY

December 17, 1922 (Norwalk, CT) – December 16, 1944; 21 years oldUnmarriedLast local address: 8 Reed Street, NorwalkEnlisted on May 30, 1942Service number: 18089618Unit: 1st Cavalry Division, 7th Cavalry Regiment, Troop E Born to Herbert T. Sr. [WWI veteran; spent 11 months as a POW] (1893-1961) and Olivia Bliss Collings (1899-1979). Herbert Jr. was theirContinue reading “PRIVATE FIRST CLASS HERBERT TURNER COLLINGS JR.; U.S. ARMY”