Dai Collier


David John Collier MM was a Welsh semi-professional football inside right who played in the Football League for Grimsby Town. He scored on his only cap for Wales, in a 2–1 British Home Championship win over Scotland on 12 February 1921.

Personal life

Collier served in the Welsh Regiment during the First World War and was awarded the Military Medal for an act of heroism at Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme in July 1916. He suffered shrapnel wounds to the leg during the engagement.