Knights Ferry Boy Was Exempt, But
Volunteered
San Francisco Chronicle - Friday February
13, 1918
Stanley L. Collins of Knights Ferry and
Oakdale California, was one of the men lost on the Tuscania. He
was 23 years of age and a native of Knights Ferry. His father
Ernest S. Collins is Postmaster at the Ferry, and the boy was
assistant Postmaster, and under the rulings of the War
Department, exempt from the draft. The boy, however, refused
even to take a chance on being exempted and volunteered his
services four months ago, joining the 100th Aero Squadron in
order that he might see active service. His brother Nelson
Collins, who was in the Engineering class at Stanford, joined
the Engineering Corps and is now in service in France. The two
boys are the only children of the Collins. Mrs. Collins is
prostrated by the news of her son's death.
