Lionel Collins

Lionel Peter Collins CB, CSI, DSO, OBE (27 November 1878 – 28 September 1957) was an English cricketer and British Indian Army officer. Collins played minor counties cricket for Berkshire and after attending Keble College, Oxford first-class cricket for Oxford University Cricket Club. He joined the British Army after university and in 1901 was seconded to the Indian Staff Corps, serving with the Gurkha Brigade of the British Indian Army. He was in England and North America in 1907 playing for the Marylebone Cricket Club and later appeared for the Army and Navy and Free Foresters cricket teams. Collins served with the Gurkhas on the Western Front of the First World War and received the Distinguished Service Order in 1915 for actions during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle. He later returned to

Lionel Collins

Lionel Peter Collins CB, CSI, DSO, OBE (27 November 1878 – 28 September 1957) was an English cricketer and British Indian Army officer. Collins played minor counties cricket for Berkshire and after attending Keble College, Oxford first-class cricket for Oxford University Cricket Club. He joined the British Army after university and in 1901 was seconded to the Indian Staff Corps, serving with the Gurkha Brigade of the British Indian Army. He was in England and North America in 1907 playing for the Marylebone Cricket Club and later appeared for the Army and Navy and Free Foresters cricket teams. Collins served with the Gurkhas on the Western Front of the First World War and received the Distinguished Service Order in 1915 for actions during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle. He later returned to