John Collinson

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John Collinson C. B. (* 1859 in Doncaster ; † August 29, 1901 ) was a British officer and governor of the Kassala District in Sudan .

Life

Collinson was a son of JWS Collinson, Beltoft House, Lincolnshire. He attended the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and joined the 58th (Northamptonshire) Regiment in 1879. He served in the Zulu War , 1879, the First Boer War , 1881, and participated with the Egyptian Army in the Dongola Campaign, 1896, and the Atbara Campaign, 1898. He led the battalion that took Akasheh in 1896. At the Battle of Omdurman he commanded the 4th Brigade of the Egyptian Army. For his services, he was named Companion of the Order of the Bath .

Collinson was one of the most prominent members of his regiment in his day. He was best known for his frequent participation in tiger hunts in China and Singapore, where he showed great courage.

literature

  • Alfred T. Camden Pratt (Ed.): People of the Period. Being a Collection of the Biographies of Upwards of Six Thousand Living Celebrities . Edition Synapse, Tokyo 2005, ISBN 978-4-901481-85-4 (2 volumes in 1, unchanged reprint of the London 1897 edition).
  • Who Was Who. A companion to "Who's who", containing the biographies of those who dies during the period 1897-1916 . Black, London 1920.
  • Richard Hill (Ed.): A Biographical Dictionary of the Sudan . 2nd ed. Cass, London 1967 (former title: A Biographical Dictionary of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan ).
personal data
SURNAME Collinson, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Governor of the Kassala District in Sudan
DATE OF BIRTH 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Doncaster
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1901