CURTIS, Colonel Thomas Lancelot Constable [of Collingham]

Coldstream Guards

Bron 1888, Died 1956

The stained glass window pictured in All Saints Church Collingham is to the memory of Colonel Curtis

It depicts the Colonel's various interests and shows a patrol boat used by his Home Guard unit on the River Trent in the Second World War.

He was born at Collingham in 1888, being educated at Eton (where he played in the Eton XI cricket team) and at Trinity College Cambridge.

The Army Lists reveal that Curtis joined as a commissioned officer in the Coldstream Guards in 1910, serving in France throughout the First World War. 

He rose to the rank of  major, retiring in 1926.

At the end of the First World War, in 1918 he married Irene, daughter of Frederick Hyland of Toronto, Canada.

He moved back to Collingham, taking Mayfield House as his residence.

He became a Member of Nottinghamshire County Council, a JP for Nottinghamshire and the district of Kestevan in Lincolnshire, with hobbies recordd as shooting, fishing and cricket.

In the book Who's Who in Nottinghamshire published in 1935 his rank is still given as Major, so he must have achieved the rank of Colonel during his time in the Home Guard.

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