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Lieutenant Robert Douglas COLLIER (Did not matriculate)

1st Battalion, Hampshire Regiment
Born 8 April 1926 in Paddington, London
Died on active service 5 August 1946, aged 20
Buried at Nicosia War Cemetery, Cyprus.


The Honourable Robert Douglas Collier was the only son of Robert Alfred Hardcastle Collier, 3rd Baron Monkswell, and of Lady Katharine Edith Collier, née Gastrell.


He was educated at Eton, and was elected to a Chambers Postmastership in History in April 1944, but did not matriculate.


He was drowned accidentally whilst on active service in Kyrenia, Cyprus on 5 August 1946.