In Memory of Captain ARTHUR EDWARD JEUNE COLLINS Mentioned in Despatches 5th Field Coy.,, Royal Engineers who died on 11 November 1914 Son of the late A. H. Collins, I.C.S., and Mrs. Collins; husband of Ethel A. Collins, of 11, Park Mansions, Bath. In 1899 Arthur Edward Jeune Collins scored 628 not out in a house cricket match at Clifton College, which remains the highest individual score ever recorded anywhere in the world. Remembered with honour YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL A E J Collins Bristol Evening News Saturday November 21st 1914 Old Cliftonians and the War Old Cliftonians Roll of Honour Collins A.E.J. Captain Royal Engineers. He died during the 1st World War only 3 months after it had started on 11th November 1914. He is commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial in Belgium. The Times on Thursday November 19th 1914 said Lieutenant Arthur Edward Jeune Collins was born in 1885, gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the RE in 1904, and promoted Lieutenant in 1907. Mr Collins sprang suddenly into fame as a cricketer in 1899 when, as a 13 year old schoolboy at Clifton by making the astonishing score of 628 runs not out in a Junior House match between Clarke's House and North Town. The match was played on five consecutive afternoons so that the batsman was able to rest between the different sections of his innings. The feat was therefore not quite so remarkable a one of physical endurance as it might appear, though for a boy of thirteen, extraordinary enough. He was batting altogether for 6 hours and 50 minutes.Both brothers of A.E.J.Collins, Herbert Charles (educated at Clifton College and Queen's College, Oxford, died 11th February 1917 aged 27) and Norman Cecil Collins (educated Wellington College and Sandhurst, died 9th August 1916 aged 18), also died in World War 1 He married Ethel Slater in the spring of 1914, and was sent to France when World War I broke out later that year. He was killed in action, as a Captain, on 11 November 1914 at the First Battle of Ypres, while serving with the 5th Field Company, Royal Engineers, at the age of 29. His body was never found, but his name is recorded at the Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium. http://www.cliftonrfchistory.co.uk/memorial/WW1/collins.htm
