This
section of the website contains a comprehensive list
of
those with the Collett name who lost their life
during
the First World War
The information
has been extracted from the
Commonwealth
War
According to these
records a total of 157 Collett men died during the war, comprising 112 from the
British Army, 16 from the Royal Navy, 3 from the Royal Flying Corp/Royal Air
Force (including New Zealander Captain Clive Franklyn Collett), 11 from
Australia, 11 from Canada, and 4 from New Zealand.
Each list is in
alphabetical order by Christian name and, wherever possible, additional
information has been added in italics after the military details.
So far it has been
discovered that there were three sets of two brothers who lost their lives
during the campaign.
Up to April 2024 only ninety-three
of the deceased have been identified as being members of the Collett Family Lines
displayed on this website and against each entry there is a cross-reference to
the appropriate line.
BRITISH
ARMY
Name |
Rank |
Regiment |
Date of Death |
Collett,
A |
Lance
Corporal 7616 |
The
King’s Royal Rifle Corps |
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Collett,
A E |
Driver
845344 |
Royal
Field Artillery |
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For
further details of A E Collett – the only son of Alfred Ernest Collett see Part
39 – The Clanfield Oxfordshire Line (Ref. 39Q1) |
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Collett,
A F |
Private
235569 |
Leicestershire
Regiment |
27
May 1918 |
Collett,
Albert 22
years |
Private
16326 |
1st
Battalion |
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Albert
was born in 1894 at Bidford-on-Avon in Warwickshire and his name is listed on
the Bidford-on-Avon War Memorial. A
detailed account of the |
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Albert
was the husband of Marie Collett of 122 Golden Hillock Road, Small Heath in
Birmingham, the son of Jack and Ellen Collett, and the cousin of Albert Henry
Collett (Ref. 57A/P15) of Armscote [below].
He died during the |
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For
further details of Albert Collett and his family see Part
57 - The Bakers of Abbots Morton in Worcestershire Line (Ref. 57A/P7) |
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La
Neuville Cemetery in Corbie is situated a few miles east of
Amiens in the Somme department of France.
The vast majority of the graves are of
officers and men who died of wounds received during the Battle of the Somme
in 1916. |
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Collett,
Albert Edward 31 years |
Driver
T/327134 |
Army
Service Corps |
9
November 1918 |
Albert
Edward was born at Leeds in 1887 and he died while being treated for his
injuries at the Royal Herbert Military Hospital in Greenwich. He was later buried at Leeds Wortley Cemetery.
He was the husband of Margaret Collett
of 67 Esplanade Kaiti Gisborne in |
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For further
details of Albert Edward Collett (Ref. 73R4) and his family see Part 73
- The (Leeds) Armley-Wortley-Drighlington-Morley Line |
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Collett,
Albert Henry 20 years |
Private
265814 |
Royal
Warwickshire Regiment |
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Albert
Henry was born in 1896 at Armscote in Warwickshire and in 1901 was living at
Cleeve Prior in Worcestershire. He was
the cousin of Albert Collett (Ref. 57A/P7) of Bidford-on-Avon [above], and his
name appears on the Thiepval Memorial – see
later historical note. |
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For
further details of Albert Henry Collett and his family see Part
57 - The Bakers of Abbots Morton Worcestershire Line (Ref. 57A/P15) |
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Collett,
Albert Henry 37 years |
Private
203515 |
Worcestershire
Regiment |
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Albert
Henry was the first child of the marriage of George Henry and Sarah Collett
of Bredon near Tewkesbury, where he was born in June 1880 and where he was
working as a navvy in 1901. His father was also born at Bredon, while his
mother came from Westmancote near Bredon.
He was buried at the White House Cemetery in St Jean-les-Ypres, grave
ref. II.A.26. |
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For
further details of Albert Henry Collett and his family see Part 5
- The Tewkesbury |
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Collett,
Albert Herbert 41 years |
Lance
Corporal 23199 |
Royal
Warwickshire Regt |
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Albert
Herbert was born in 1877 at London New Cross and was the husband of Florence
Collett of 28 St Paul’s Road at Balsall Heath in Birmingham, and the son of
Harry and Sarah Ann Collett. |
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Collett,
Aldin (Alden) |
Corporal
8103 |
7th
Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment |
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Alden
was born in 1888 and was the son of Charles Collett of Chipping Sodbury. He was buried at the |
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For further
details of Alden Collett and his family see Part 64
- The Gloucestershire Upper Swell Line (Ref. 64P54) |
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Collett,
Alfred (T A) 19
years |
Private
G/71552 |
23rd
Battalion Royal
Fusiliers |
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Alfred
of Hull was born there in 1898 and was the son of Isaac Collett and Mary Ann
Gubby of 6 Waterloo Cottages at Harefield in Uxbridge. His father Isaac Collett was born at
Harefield 1866 and his mother at Southall, Middlesex in 1863. |
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Alfred
was killed on the front line at Mesnil and was buried in the Mesnil Communal
Cemetery Extension. He is also listed
here under the name of T A Collett. |
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For further
details of Alfred Collett and his family see Part
41 - The Middlesex Harefield |
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The Mesnil Communal Cemetery Extension on
the Somme was begun in July 1916, and used again as a front-line cemetery in
1918. |
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Collett,
Alfred Ernest 33 years |
Private
26826 |
Royal
Fusiliers |
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Alfred
Ernest was born in 1883 at Kentish Town and was the son of Alfred and Amelia
Collett of 15 Christchurch Avenue in Wembley.
Alfred Ernest’s father was born at Shudy Camps in Cambridgeshire
during 1856. |
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Alfred’s
name is on the Thiepval Memorial in the Somme department of the Picardy
region of northern France – see
historical note below. His name is
also included amongst those listed
on a tablet in St Silas the |
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For
further details of Alfred Ernest Collett and his family see Part
70 - The Colletts of Shudy Camps in Cambridgeshire (Ref. 70P25) |
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The Thiepval Memorial was designed by Sir
Edwin Lutyens and is the biggest British Battle Memorial in the world. It was built between 1928 and 1932 and is
sited just a few miles to the south-west of the village of Thiepval which was
totally destroyed during the Battle of the Somme
between 1st July and 4th November 1916. It contains the names
of 72,000 British and South African soldiers who have no known grave. Many of the Collett men listed here have
their names included on this memorial. |
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Collett,
Arthur 30
years |
Private
23212 |
10th
Battalion Worcestershire
Regiment |
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Arthur
R Collett was born at Worcester during 1886 and his name appears on the Thiepval
Memorial. |
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For further
details of Arthur Collett and his family see Part 64
- The Gloucestershire Upper Swell Line (Ref. 64P26) |
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Collett,
Arthur 24 years |
Lance
Corporal 7625 |
Cameron
Highlanders |
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Arthur
was born at Totley in 1890 the youngest son of Charles and Mary Ann Collett
of Ecclesall Bierlow, and the brother of Herbert Collett who was killed three
years later in 1917. Charles was born
at Sandhurst in Gloucestershire in 1837, the son of Rebecca. |
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Collett,
Arthur 19 years |
Private
22658 |
The
King’s Liverpool Regt |
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Arthur
was born at Liverpool in 1897 the son of Charles and Emma Alice Collett of 29
Earle Road, Edge Hill in Liverpool. Charles
was born in 1864, the son of Henry and Mary Collett of Liverpool. Arthur’s name appears on the Thiepval
Memorial. |
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Collett,
Arthur Ernest 35 years |
Private
25936 |
The
Queen’s Royal West Kent Regt |
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Arthur
Ernest was born in 1883 the husband of Catherine Lillian Collett of 97 Sydney
Road, Hornsey in London and the son of A & E
Collett of 41 High Road, Wood Green in London. |
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For
further details of Arthur Ernest Collett and his family see Part
46 - The Charlton-on-Otmoor (Oxon) Area |
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Collett,
Arthur J 31 years |
Private
G/4765 |
Middlesex
Regiment |
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Arthur
J was born in 1885 at Fencott the son of William and Emma Collett of
Charlton-on-Otmoor. Tragically his
father died during the two-week period between being notified of Arthur’s
death and that of his older brother William who died on 5th
September 1916 as, on that second occasion, he was referred to as “the late
William Collett”. Arthur’s name
appears on the Thiepval Memorial - see brother William Collett (Ref. 46P46). |
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For
further details of Arthur John Collett and his family see Part
46 - The Charlton-on-Otmoor (Oxon) Area |
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Collett,
Arthur Leigh 25 years |
2nd
Lieutenant |
8th
Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment |
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Arthur
Leigh was born at Victoria in Prince Edward Island, Canada, on 8th
December 1890 and was buried at Grandcourt Road Cemetery in Grandcourt, Somme;
grave reference B89 – see historical
note below, while a brass plaque, raised in his honour, can be found in
the Church of St John the Evangelist on Prince Edward Island. A tribute in the Toronto Star newspaper on
28th November 1916 recorded that Arthur Leigh Collett was a Rhodes
Scholar in 1912-1913 and, according to his Attestation Paper completed on 13th
September 1914, he was still a student at that time as well. |
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For
further details of Arthur Leigh Collett and his family see Part 1
- The Gloucestershire Main Line (Ref. 1P168) |
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Grandcourt
Road Cemetery is situated on the site of the Ancre Battlefield just
north of Thiepval. The struggle to
take Grandcourt began on 1st July 1916 (the first day of the
Battle of the Somme) and was secured during the night of 5th
February 1917. It was briefly taken
back by the Germans between April and August 1918. The cemetery contains the graves of 389
British soldiers and one from Canada.
A further 108 graves are unnamed. |
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Collett,
Arthur Thomas 34 years |
Private
T/205129 |
The
Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt |
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Arthur
Thomas was born in 1882 the husband of Beatrice E Collett of 26 Belgrave Crescent
in Bath and the son of Mrs M A Collett of 6 Highbury
Terrace in Bath. |
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His
name appears on the |
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For further
details of Arthur Thomas Collett and his family see Part 31
- The Third Wiltshire |
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Tyne
Cot Memorial is situated north-east of Ieper. It is one of four memorials to those
missing in the Belgian Flanders area of the Ypres Salient. The memorial bears the names of 35,000
officers and men whose graves are not known. |
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Collett,
C E |
Private
203086 |
Royal
Warwickshire Regt |
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Collett,
Charles Edwin 41 years |
Private
11143 |
2nd
Battalion Duke of |
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He
was actually Charles Ernest Lewis Collett who was
born in 1875, the brother of Miss M Collett of 138 Fort Road in Bermondsey,
London. He was buried at St Sever
Cemetery in |
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Charles
Edwin’s sister was likely to be (Ethel) Maud Collett born in 1884 and they
were two of the four children of Joseph and Jane Elizabeth Collett of St Mary
Lode in |
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For further
details of Charles Edwin aka Charles Ernest Lewis Collett and his family see
Part 2 - The Secondary |
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The St Sever Cemetery at Rouen was
primarily the burial ground for those servicemen that died in the many
hospitals in the Rouen area. It was
extended in 1916 and contains over 3,000 commonwealth graves. |
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Collett,
Charles Henry |
Rifleman
A/203226 |
The
King’s Royal Rifle Corps |
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His
name appears on the |
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Collett,
C J |
Sapper
452448 |
Royal
Engineers |
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For further
details of Cecil John Collett and his family see Part 3
– The Chedworth |
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Collett,
Charles |
Sapper
6798 |
11th
Field Company Royal Engineers |
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Charles
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For further
details of Charles see Part
37 - The |
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Richebourg L’ Avoue is a village in the department of the Pas-de-Calais situated between
Bethune and Lille. The Touret Memorial
commemorates 13,000 servicemen who were killed before 25th
September 1915 who had no known grave. |
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Collett,
Charles Robert |
Private
55856 |
14th
Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers |
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Collett,
Charles William |
Rifleman
R/27208 |
The
King’s Royal Rifle Corps |
20
May 1917 |
Charles William’s
name appears on the |
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Collett,
Charles William |
Sergeant
34173 |
Machine
Gun Corps Infantry |
7
May 1917 |
Charles
William was born around 1896 in Kensington the son of the late Charles
Collett and Sophia Faber (formerly Collett) of 40 South Row, North Kensington
in London. Charles senior was born at
Kensal Green in 1865, the son of Henry Collett also of Kensal Green. The name
of Charles William Collett name is included on the Neuville-Vitasse (London)
Memorial reference XVI.L.7 – see
historical note below. |
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Neuville-Vitasse is a village in the department of the Pas-de-Calais, five kilometres
south-east of Arras. The London
Cemetery stands on the west side of the road to Arras in a shallow valley. Neuville-Vitasse
was attacked by the 56th London Division on 7 April 1917 and captured by the
same Division on 9 April. The village
was almost entirely lost to the German Army at the end of March 1918 but was
regained at the end of the following August.
The London Cemetery
was made by the 56th Division in April 1917 and was greatly extended after
the Armistice when graves were brought in from other burial grounds and from
the battlefields between Arras, Vis-en-Artois and Croisilles. The casualty
details are as follows: British 713, Canadian 23, Australian 11, making a
total of 747 burials. |
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Collett,
Christopher William 21 years |
Private
9673 |
Royal
Warwickshire Regt |
15
May 1918 |
Christopher
William was born in 1897 the son of Christopher and Rachel Collett of 36 Fair
Green, Diss in Norfolk, where he was born.
He was killed in |
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For further
details of Christopher William Collett and his family see Part
30 - The Third |
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Collett,
Clarence Henry 27 years |
Private
14/165 |
8th
Battalion |
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Clarence
Henry was born in 1889 the son of Thomas and Rosa Collett of “Melksham” |
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For
further details of Clarence Henry Collett and his family see Part
35 - The Melksham to Wisconsin Line (Ref. 35O73) |
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Collett,
Cyril Frederick |
Private
13375 |
Worcestershire
Regiment |
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Cyril Frederick died
during the First |
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For
further details of Cyril Frederick Collett and his family see Part
43 - The Staffordshire |
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The Ypres Menin Gate Memorial is situated
on the east side of the town of Ieper (formerly Ypres) in West Vlaanderen,
Belgium. It is one of four memorials
to the missing soldiers in Belgian Flanders covering the area of Ypres
Salient. More information on this
subject can be found on this website in the file entitled “Clive Franklyn
Collett”. |
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Collett,
Cyril Joseph 20 years |
Gunner
162399 |
Royal
Field Artillery |
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Cyril
Joseph was born in 1898 at Bicester and was the son Thomas and Mary Collett who
were living at |
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Collett,
David |
Private
6531 |
1st
Battalion |
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David
was the son of George and Amy Collett of 40 Harford Street, Lakenham in
Norwich. The name of David Collett
appears on Panel 8 of the Le Touret Memorial – see historical note below. |
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For
further details of David Collett and his family see Part
18 - The Suffolk Line (Ref. 18P147) |
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The Le Touret Memorial was primarily established to commemorate the
lives of 13,000 servicemen who died during the Battle of Loos from 1914
through to 25th September 1915 who had no known grave. |
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Collett,
Denis |
Private
45492 |
8th
King’s Royal Irish Hussars |
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Collett,
E 27
years |
Private
G/2945 |
16th
Battalion Middlesex Regt |
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Collett,
Edmund 24
years |
Private
35594 |
King’s
Own Royal Lancaster Regt |
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Edmund
was born in 1894 and was the son of the late Robert Collett and Agnes
Catherine Collett of 21 Bradburn Street, Cheatham in Manchester. Edmund’s older brothers Frederick Collett
(Ref. 11P47) and Frank Collett (Ref. 11P48) were both killed earlier in 1915
and 1917 respectively, Frederick also a member of the King’s Own Royal
Lancashire Regiment, with Frank serving with the Canadian Infantry. |
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For
further details of Edmund Collett and his family see Part
11 - The Welford-on-Avon Line (Ref. 11P52) |
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Collett,
Edward |
Sergeant
12748 |
5th
Battalion Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry |
1
May 1917 |
Edward
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For further
details of Edward see Part
34 - The Appleford Berkshire |
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Collett,
Ernest 28
years |
Lance
Corporal 7948 |
Duke
of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment |
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Ernest
was born in 1886, the husband of Ethel Emily Collett of 75 Pownall Road,
Dalston in |
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For
further details of Ernest Collett and his family see Part
50 - The London to New Zealand Line (Ref. 50Q9) |
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Collett,
Ernest George |
Private
7646 |
First
Battalion Wiltshire Regiment |
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Ernest
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Ernest
was killed during the Second |
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For further
details of Ernest see Part
28 - The Faringdon |
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Collett,
F |
Gunner
86413 |
Royal
Garrison Artillery |
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F
Collett was most likely Frederick Collett the older brother of George Edward
Archibald Collett (Ref. 35P55) who was killed in action in 1917, during the
Third Battle of Ypres. They were the
sons of William Thomas Collett and Sarah Ann Barnett of 123 Havelock Street
in Kettering, Northamptonshire. The
War Memorial, outside the Alfred East Art Gallery & Museum in Kettering,
bears the names of the two brothers Frederick Collett and George Edward
Archie Collett |
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For
further details of Frederick Collett from Kettering, see Part
35 - The Melksham to Wisconsin & Ontario Line (Ref. 35P53) |
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Collett,
Frederick |
Lance
Corporal 8668 |
King’s
Own Royal Lancaster Regt |
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Frederick’s
name appears on the Ypres Menin Gate Memorial. He was the elder brother of Frank Collett
(Ref. 11P48) and Edmund Collett (Ref. 11P52) who also perished during the
war, the latter also serving with the King’s Own Royal Lancashire Regiment. |
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For
further details of Frederick Collett and his family see Part
11 - The Welford-on-Avon Line (Ref. 11P47) |
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Collett,
F G |
Lance
Corporal 23105 |
Machine
Gun Corps Infantry |
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For
further details of Frederick George Collett see Part 5
- The Tewkesbury Line (Ref. 5Q12) |
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Collett,
Frederick 22
years |
Corporal
242131 |
2nd
/ 8th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment |
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Frederick
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For further
details of Frederick John James Collett and his family see Part 1
- The Main Gloucestershire Line (Ref. 1P19) |
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The Wieltje Farm Cemetery was made and
used by fighting units (in particular by the 2nd/4th
Gloucestershire Regiments) during the period from July to October 1917. There are only 115 Commonwealth servicemen from
the First World War buried or commemorated at this small cemetery. Ten of the
burials are unidentified and there are special memorials to twenty casualties
whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. The site also contains the grave of one
German soldier. |
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Collett,
Frederick Victor |
Private
20160 |
Duke
of Cornwall’s Light Infantry |
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For
further details of Frederick Victor Collett and his family see Part 35
- The Melksham to Wisconsin Line (Ref. 35P75) |
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Collett,
Francis William |
Private
6300 |
1st
Battalion |
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Collett,
Frederick William 24 years |
Private
2670 |
16th
Battalion Middlesex Regt |
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Frederick
William was born in 1892 and was the son of Frederick William and Emma
Collett of |
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The
day Frederick William Collett junior died, |
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Collett,
Frederick Yeeles 18 years |
Private
45529 |
8th
Battalion Royal |
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Frederick
Yeeles was the son of Daniel and Eliza Collett of 1 Poplar Cottages at
Batheaston in Bath. Panel 7 of the
Vis-an-Artois Memorial bears his name along with 9,000 men who lost their
lives in the final push for Victory in Picardy and Artois which ended with
the Armistice on 11th November 1918. |
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For
further details of Frederick Yeeles Collett and his family see Part
21 - The Cornwall Line (Ref. 21b/D18) |
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Collett,
George A 25
years |
Private
134918 |
Royal
Fusiliers |
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George
A Collett (who is listed incorrectly on the CWGC website as C A Collett), was
born at Battersea in 1895, the son of Henry James and Harriet Elizabeth
Collett of 31 Landseer Street in Battersea. |
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For
further details of George A Collett and his family see Part
41 - The Middlesex Harefield Line (Ref. 41Q6) |
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Collett,
George F |
Corporal
11942 |
7th
Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment |
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George
F was buried at the |
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Collett,
George 21
years |
Private |
Royal
Fusiliers |
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George
was born in 1895 and was the son of Charles John and Eliza Collett of |
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Collett,
George Cyril 19 years |
Rifleman
52510 |
Royal
Irish Rifles |
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George
Cyril was born in 1899 and was the son of W H Collett of Luddington just
south-west of |
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For
further details of George Cyril Collett and his family see Part 11
- The Welford-on-Avon Line (Ref. 11Q17) |
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The Ploegsteert Memorial is situated a
few miles south of Ieper (Ypres). It commemorates more than 11,000 British
and South African serviceman who were killed during the war but have no known
graves. It forms part of the Berks
Cemetery Extension named after the 1st/4th Royal
Berkshire Regiment who set it up in June 1916. |
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Collett,
George Edward Archie |
Private
203402 |
1st
Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regt |
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George
was most likely the younger brother of Frederick Collett (Ref. 35P53) who was
killed in action in 1918. They were
the sons of William Thomas Collett and Sarah Ann Barnett of 123 Havelock
Street in Kettering, Northamptonshire.
The War Memorial, outside the Alfred East Art Gallery & Museum in
Kettering, bears the names of the two brothers Frederick Collett and George
Edward Archie Collett. |
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For
further details of George Edward Archibald Collett from Kettering, see Part
35 - The Melksham to Wisconsin & Ontario Line (Ref. 35P55) |
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Collett,
George Russell 21 years |
Rifleman |
1st Battalion The Rangers |
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For further details of George Russell Collett, see Part 80 - The Limehouse (London) Collett
Family (Ref. 80O8) |
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Collett,
George William 16 years |
Private
3279 |
Royal
Warwickshire Regt |
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George
William was born at Newark in 1899, the son of Joseph Collett and Elizabeth
Combes. He was killed at Albert Somme
and his name appears on the Thiepval Memorial and on a plaque in the Church of St Mary Magdalene in Newark. It
is acknowledged that was the youngest soldier killed in action during The
Great War. |
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For further
details of George William Collett and his family see Part 2
- The Secondary |
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Collett,
H |
Pioneer
288317 |
Royal
Engineers |
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H
was buried at the |
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For
further details of Horace Collett and his family see Part
36 - The Birstall Heckmondwike Batley Yorkshire Line (Ref. 36r4) |
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Collett,
H A |
Private
2780 |
1st
Battalion Welsh Guards |
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Collett,
H E |
Private
G/51710 |
Royal
Fusiliers |
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Collett,
Harold |
Private
P/6849 |
Royal
Fusiliers |
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Harold
from |
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For further
details of Harold Collett and his family see Part
14 - The John Kyte Collett |
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The Arras Memorial designed by Sir Edwin
Lutyens is situated in the town of Arras and commemorates 35,000 British,
South African and New Zealand servicemen who were killed between the spring
of 1916 and August 1918. |
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Collett,
Harold John 19 years |
Rifleman
S/9529 |
Rifle
Brigade |
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Harold
John was born in 1897 and was the son of Thomas and Sarah Collett of 127 St
Paul’s Road, Moseley in |
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Collett,
Harry 28
years |
Private
39538 |
South
Staffordshire Regt |
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Harry
was born in 1889 the
husband of Nellie Collett of New Buildings in Wednesfield Road, Willenhall in
Staffordshire and the son of Henry Collett and Maria Marston of Willenhall. He is buried at
Stagleno in Genoa and his name is included in the list on the Willenhall War
Memorial. |
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For further details of Harry Collett and his
family see Part 83 - The Collett Families of Willenhall
(Ref. 83p4) |
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Collett,
Henry George 33 years |
Private
267061 |
1st
Bucks Battalion of the Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry |
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Henry
George was the husband of Hannah Collett of 86 Watlands View at Porthill in |
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Henry
George junior was born on 23.07.1884 and his wife Hannah Slater was born on
08.08.1889 both at |
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For further
details of Henry see Part
11 - The Welford on |
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The Dozinghem Military Cemetery lies
near Krombeke.
It contains over 3,000 graves and was one of three cemeteries set up
by the troops when establishing casualty clearing stations in readiness for
the July 1917 offensive. The name
given to each was very cryptic in that they where Mendinghem, Dozinghem, and Bandaghem. |
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Collett,
Henry William Howell |
Private
16019 |
The
King’s Liverpool Regt |
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Henry
William Howell was the son of the Reverend William and Emily Collett of
Ferney Queen’s Park in |
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For
further details of Henry William Howell Collett and his family see Part 9
- The Aldsworth Line (Ref. 9O40) |
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Collett,
Herbert 31
years |
Private
235127 |
York
& |
|
Herbert
was born in 1886 the husband of Clara Collett of Ecclesall in Sheffield, and
the brother of Arthur Collett who was killed in 1914 aged 24. The brothers were the sons of Charles and
Mary Ann Collett of Ecclesall Bierlow.
The name of Herbert Collett appears on Bay 8 of the Arras Memorial at
Pas-de-Calais – see historical note above. |
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Collett,
Herbert Paris |
Corporal
242048 |
7th
Battalion of The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt |
23
May 1918 |
Herbert was buried in
the Chauny Communal Cemetery at Aisne in France – 1.A.11 |
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For
further details of Herbert Paris Collett and his family see Part
33 - The Bourton-on-the-Water |
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The Chauny Communal Cemetery at Aisne in
France was extended (The British Extension) after the
Armistice and was made for the burial of remains brought in from the
battlefields of the Aisne and from the smaller cemeteries in the surrounding
countryside. |
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Collett,
John |
Sergeant
8108 |
D
Company 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment |
|
John
enlisted on |
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He was
buried at Neuville-Vitasse ( |
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For further
details of see Part
28 - The Faringdon |
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Collett,
John |
Private
6017 |
2nd
Battalion Royal |
9
May 1915 |
John’s
name appears on Panel 7/8 of the Ploegsteert Memorial. The memorial forms part of the Berks
Cemetery Extension named after the Royal |
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Collett,
John 20
years |
Private |
22nd
Battalion |
|
John
was born in 1896 and was the son of William John and Margaret Collett of 56
Carruthers Street, at Ancoats in |
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Collett,
John Elvin |
Private
40682 |
Northumberland
Fusiliers |
|
John
Elvin’s name appears on Panel 2 of the Ploegsteert Memorial. His brother Harry Collett (Ref. 36R27) lost
his life as a seaman with the Royal Navy in 1916. |
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For
further details of John Elvin Collett see Part
36 - The Barwick-on-Elmet (Leeds) Line (Ref. 36R17) |
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Collett,
John Ernest William |
Lance
Corporal 13313 |
3rd
Battalion Worcestershire Regiment |
|
John
Ernest was the son of John and Mary Ann Collett of the Market Place at
Kineton in Warwickshire, where the War Memorial bears his name as J E W
Collett |
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For further
details of John Ernest William Collett see Part 5
- The Tewkesbury Line (Ref. 5Q24) |
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Collett,
John G |
Rifleman
323979 |
City
of |
21
May 1917 |
John
G’s name appears on Bays 9/10 of the Arras Memorial, and was the husband of Elizabeth
Davenport of Hackney, where John George C Collett was born. |
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For
further details of John George C Collett see Part
31 - The Third Wiltshire Line (Ref. 31O50) |
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Collett,
John Harry 38 years |
Acting
Bombardier 96570 |
Royal
Garrison Artillery |
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John
Harry was born in 1879 the husband of Anne May Collett of 71 Battle Road, St Leonards-on-Sea at |
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Collett,
John Henry 24 years |
Private
681125 |
22nd
Battalion |
|
John
Henry was born in 1894 and was the son of John Henry and Mary Collett of 8
Salisbury Street, |
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Collett,
John William 20 years |
Private
10253 |
|
|
John
William was born in 1896 and was the son of John and Eliza Sarah Collett of 10
Lateward Road in Brentford. His name
appears on the Thiepval Memorial. |
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For
further details of John William Collett see Part
77 - The Cricklade to Isleworth Brentford Line (Ref. 77O9) |
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Collett,
Joseph |
Private
26885 |
10th
Battalion Duke of |
|
Joseph’s
name appears on Bay 6 of the Arras Memorial.
His younger brother Sidney Frederick Collett (Ref. 15P17) died in 1917. |
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For
further details of Joseph Collett and his family see Part
15 - The Kenilworth and Coventry |
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Collett,
Joseph George 38 years |
Private
13538 |
Royal
Warwickshire Regt |
|
Joseph
George was born in 1878 the son of William Collett. He was buried at the Khartoum War Cemetery |
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Collett,
Joseph Henry |
Private
SR/584 |
Middlesex
Regiment |
|
Joseph
Henry’s name appears on the Thiepval Memorial and was another fatality of the
first day of the Battle of the Somme. He
was born at Old Ford in Middlesex during 1874 and was the husband of Alice
Emily Fulgoni and in 1901 they and their family were living at 83 Pritchards
Road in Bethnal Green |
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For
further details of Joseph Henry Collett and his family see Part
50 - The London to New Zealand |
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Collett,
Joseph McKennes 21 years |
Private
200287 |
Royal
Scots |
|
Collett,
Louis Arthur |
Private
16810 |
1st
Battalion |
|
Louis
Arthur’s name appears on Bay 3 of the Arras Memorial. |
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For
further details of Louis Arthur Collett and his family see Part
18 - The Suffolk |
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Collett,
Oliver Harold |
Private
2179 |
9th
Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regt |
|
Oliver
Harold was the son of Henry and |
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Collett,
P A |
Private
M/338338 |
Army
Service Corps |
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Collett,
Percy 28
years |
Sergeant |
Royal
Warwickshire Regt |
|
Percy
was born in 1890 the husband of Jessie Collett of 41 Enderby Road at Perry
Common in Erdington, |
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Collett,
Percy Frank |
Private
G/16220 |
12th
Battalion East Surrey Regiment |
|
Percy
Frank was buried at the London Rifle Brigade Cemetery at Comines-Warneton in
Hainaut, Belgium. |
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For
further details of Percy Frank Collett and his family see Part
27 - The Harewood Yorkshire Line (Ref. 27Q5) |
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The London Rifle Brigade Cemetery is
situated 800 metres from Ploegsteert and 15 km to
the south of Ieper. It was begun by
units of the 4th Division in December 1914, and used by fighting units and
field ambulances until March 1918. The cemetery owes its name to the 22 burials
of the London Rifle Brigade of the 4th Division in Plot 3, made in January, February and March 1915.
The cemetery now contains 335 Commonwealth and 18 German burials of
the First World War |
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Collett,
Percy James 27 yrs |
Private |
South
Wales Borderers |
6
May 1918 Berlin
South West Cemetery |
Percy
James was born in 1891 and was the foster son of Mrs E Harris 26 Sparkbrook
Street in |
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Collett,
Peter 28
years |
Private
20137 |
The
King’s Liverpool Regt |
|
Peter
was born in 1887 the son of Mrs Jane Cadman (formerly Collett) of |
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For further
details of see Part
43 - The Staffordshire |
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Collett,
R |
Corporal
1518 |
Machine
Gun Corps (Motors) |
16
April 1918 |
His
name appears on a headstone in the cemetery at Voormezeele
Enclosure No. 3, grave reference XIII.C.17.
The stone also provides the additional information that he was
attached to 4th Battery of the Machine Gun Corps. |
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Collett,
R |
Rifleman
266415 |
Prince
of Wales Own West Yorkshire Regt |
4
May 1918 |
He was buried in
Leeds Hunslet Old Cemetery. |
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Collett,
Robert H |
Private
049696 |
Royal
Ordnance Corps |
|
Robert H was buried
at |
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Collett,
Reginald Jack 31 years |
Private
52926 |
8th
Battalion Royal
Fusiliers |
|
Reginald
Jack was born in 1892 the son of the late Henry and Harriet Collett of 65 Henry
Street in Kenilworth. He was killed
during the early days of the |
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For further
details of Reginald Jack Collett and his family see Part
15 - The |
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The Cambrai Memorial is situated near the
village of Louverval. It commemorates
the lives of 7,000 British and South African servicemen who died in the
Battle of Cambrai lead by Sir Douglas Haig from 20th November through to
December 1917. |
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Collett,
Reuben Kemp 20 years |
Rifleman
2806 |
1/6th
Battalion City
of London Rifles, London Regt |
|
Reuben
Kemp Collett was born at Camberwell on 10th August 1895, the fourth
son of Reuben Collett of 114 Loughborough Park in Brixton by his wife Anna
Eliza Higgins, the daughter of Alfred Higgins. He was educated at Bellenden Road High
School in Camberwell and was a clerk before he volunteered and enlisted in
September 1914. He trained at Burgess
Hill and served with the Expeditionary Force in France from March 1915. He was seriously wounded in action at the
Battle of Loos on 25th September 1915. He died in New End Hospital in Hampstead,
following which he was buried at the Hampstead Cemetery. He also lost a brother during the war – see
Sydney John Collett. |
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On
the day of the census in 1901, Reuben K Collett was five years of age when he
and his family were living at 26 Ivanhoe Road in Camberwell. His father Reuben was 51 and a newsagent,
and his mother Anna was 44 and from Mile End.
His siblings on that day were William A Collett, 14 and born at
Stockwell, Christopher Robert Collett 11, Sidney John Collett nine, Rose Louisa
Collett three and Albert Edwin Collett who was one year old, and all of them
born at Camberwell. By 1911 the family
was residing at 20 Dane Avenue, Ruskin Park, Herne Hill, South East London,
when Reuben was 15 and a clerk for a tea merchant. |
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Collett,
Robert H 31 years |
Private
7644 |
First
Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment |
9
May 1915 |
Robert
H was born in 1884 and was the son of Mrs Elizabeth Ann Dance of 12 Midland
Road, Watermoor, in Cirencester. His
name appears on Panel 17 of the Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais – see earlier historical note. |
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Collett,
Ronald Frederick 21 years |
Private
24228 |
2nd
/ 6th Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment |
29
September 1917 |
Ronald
Frederick was born in 1896 and was a native of |
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For
further details of Ronald Frederick Collett and his family see Part 57
- The Bakers of Abbots Morton Line (Ref. 57P14) |
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The Bridge House Cemetery is located 5km
north-east of Ieper and was named after a farmhouse. It was made by the 59th (North Midland)
Division at the end of September 1917 and around the time that Ronald was
killed. All the graves but five are
those of soldiers of that division, and all except one date from 26-28
September and the Battle of Polygon Wood.
The cemetery contains forty-five First World War burials, four of them
unidentified. |
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Collett,
Samuel |
Private
7868 |
2nd
Battalion Worcestershire
Regiment |
|
Samuel’s
name appears on Panel 34 of the |
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Collett,
Sidney Thomas 23 years |
Private
2868 |
Oxfordshire
& Buckinghamshire Light Infantry |
|
Sidney
Thomas was born in 1893 and was the son of Edwin and Sarah Ann Collett of |
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For further
details of Sidney Thomas Collett and his family see Part 38
- The Oxford [Wolvercote] Stonemasons |
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Collett,
Sydney 20
years |
Private
18137 |
Royal
Warwickshire Regt |
|
Sydney
was born in 1897 and was the son of Mr Sidney and Mrs Charlotte Collett of
Block 2 in Cook Street in Coventry. He
was buried at the London Road Cemetery at Coventry. His older brother Joseph Collett died at
the Battle of the Somme in 1916. |
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For
further details of Sidney Frederick Collett and his family see Part
15 - The Kenilworth & Coventry |
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Collett,
Sydney John 27 years |
Private
42629 |
|
|
Sydney
John Collett was born at Camberwell in 1891 but later he came from Badsey
near Evesham. He was the third son of
Reuben Collett of 114 Loughborough Park in Brixton by his wife Anna Eliza
Higgins the daughter of Alfred Higgins.
His brother Reuben Kemp Collett had previously been killed in action
during the war. Sydney’s name appears
on the Pozieres Memorial – see
historical note below. |
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The Pozieres Memorial at Somme relates
mainly to the crisis in March and April 1918 when the Allied 5th
Army was driven back by overwhelming numbers across the former Somme
battlefield. The memorial commemorates
the lives of 14,000 British casualties who had no known grave and who died
between 31st March and 7th August 1918. |
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Collett,
T |
Private
9821 |
1st
Battalion Royal
Warwickshire Regt |
|
T
was the brother of Mr C Collett of |
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Collett,
T A |
Sergeant
G/61683 |
17th
Battalion Royal
Fusiliers |
4
May 1918 |
Collett,
T A 19
years [see Alfred] |
Private
G/71552 |
23rd
Battalion Royal
Fusiliers |
1
April 1918 |
Collett,
Thomas 21
years |
Rifleman
Y/1277 |
The
King’s Royal Rifle Corps |
|
Thomas
was born in 1895 and was the son of George and Alice Collett. |
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Collett,
Thomas Edwin 33 years |
Lance
Corporal F/670 |
Middlesex
Regiment |
|
Thomas
Edwin was born in 1883 the husband of Eliza Collett of |
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Collett,
Thomas Theodore 20 years |
Second
Lieutenant |
3rd
Company 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment |
|
Thomas
Theodore was born in 1897 and was the son of the late Reverend Thomas Collett
Vicar of Scotby, Carlisle and Maude Collett of 12 Garden Road in Tunbridge
Wells. Thomas was buried in Grove Town
Cemetery at Meaulte in Somme, France, while his father’s headstone at Scotby
also includes details regarding Thomas Theodore Collett |
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For
further details of Thomas Theodore Collett and his family see Part 18
- The Suffolk Line (Ref. 18R1) |
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The Grove Town Cemetery contains 1,395
First World War burials and was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. In September 1916, the 34th and 2/2nd
London Casualty Clearing Stations were established at this location, known to
the troops as Grove Town, to deal with casualties from the Somme
battlefields. They were moved in April 1917 and, except for a few burials in
August and September 1918, the cemetery was closed. |
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Collett,
Thomas William |
Private
2030 |
7th
Battalion The
King’s Liverpool Regiment |
16
May 1915 |
He
was buried at Rue-des-Berceaux Military Cemetery in Richebourg-L'Avoue. |
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New
information discovered in early 2017 has provided more details about Thomas
William Collett from Liverpool who was the second child of Joseph Collett and
Elizabeth Sweetland and, upon their wedding day at Liverpool in 1880, the
bridegroom’s father was named as Richard Collett who, so far, has not been
traced. Thomas was 26 years of age
when he was killed in action on the frontline, where his older brother Joseph
Richard Collett was injured two days after, who was also serving with the
King’s Liverpool Regiment. At the moment, the origins of their family are not known,
although brief details are set out in Collett Newsletter No 128 – February
2017. |
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Richebourg is a
village and commune to the north of Bethune in the Pas de Calais district of
northern France. The Rue-des-Berceaux Military Cemetery was begun in January 1915
and used until February 1917. |
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Collett,
Walter 28
years |
Rifleman
306477 |
Prince
of Wales Own West Yorkshire Regt |
|
Walter
was born at Leeds in 1889 the son of the late Albert and Ellen Collett of
Armley in Leeds. His body was buried
at the |
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For further
details of Walter Collett (Ref. 73R8) and his family see Part 73
- The (Leeds) Armley-Wortley-Drightlington-Morley Line |
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The Coxyde Military Cemetery is today
known as Koksijde.
In June 1917, Commonwealth forces relieved French forces on six
kilometres of front line from the sea to a point south of Nieuport, and held
this sector for six months. Coxyde was
about ten kilometres behind the front line.
The village was used for rest billets and was occasionally shelled,
but the cemetery, which had been started by French troops, was found to be
reasonably safe. It became the most
important of the Commonwealth cemeteries on the Belgian coast and was used at
night for the burial of the dead brought back from the front line. The cemetery was used
again during the Second World War, chiefly for the burial of casualties
sustained during the defence of the
Dunkirk-Nieuport perimeter in May 1940.
The cemetery now contains 1,507 Commonwealth burials of the First
World War, the French graves from this period having since been removed. The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin
Lutyens. |
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Collett,
William 28
yrs |
Corporal
13189 |
11th
Battalion |
|
William
was born in 1888 the husband of May Eleanor Collett of 20 Cemetery Road in
Ipswich and the son of Mr & Mrs J Collett of 62A Churchgate
in Stockport. His name appears on the
Thiepval Memorial. |
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Collett,
William |
Lance
Corporal 73852 |
Gloucestershire
Regiment |
30
May 1918 |
William was the son
of Sarah Collett of |
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Collett,
William 36
years |
Private
12223 |
6th
Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry |
|
William
was born at Fencott near Charlton-on-Otmoor in October 1880 and was the son
of the late William and Emma Collett of Charlton-on-Otmoor in Oxfordshire. Less than two-weeks earlier William’s
brother had been killed – see Arthur J Collett (Ref. 46P48). |
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For
further details of William Collett and his family see Part
46 - The Charlton-on-Otmoor (Oxon) Area |
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Collett,
William |
Private
65691 |
61st
Company Infantry Machine Gun Corps |
|
William
was born in Fulham and later lived at Leagrave in |
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For
further details of William Collett and his family see Part
49 - The Kirtlington to California Area |
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Collett,
William 35
years |
Private
29412 |
12th
Labour Battalion |
|
William
was born at Sheffield in 1882, the son of widow Mary Collett of |
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Collett,
William Robert 32
years |
Private
7790 |
First
Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment |
|
William
Robert was born in 1882 the husband of Mrs Collett of |
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For further
details of William Robert Collett and his family see Part
One - The |
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Collett,
William Alfred 21 years |
Private
10237 |
2nd
Battalion |
|
William
Alfred was born in 1893 and was the son of the late Joseph W Collett and Rose
Blanche Collett. His name appears on Panel
33 of the |
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Collett,
William Edwin 21 years |
Corporal
48324 |
C
|
|
William
Edwin was born in 1896 and was the son of Maria Collett of Nethercote Hill in
Lacock near Chippenham in Wiltshire.
He was awarded the Military Medal and his name is amongst those on the
Tyne Cot Memorial listed as ‘missing in Belgian Flanders’ during the Ypres
Salient conflict. |
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For further
details of William Edwin Collett and his family see Part 62
- The Trowbridge to New Zealand |
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Collett,
William H 23 years |
Corporal
11239 |
3rd
Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry |
|
William
H was born in 1895 the son of Lewis and Selina Collett of Lillingstone Lovell
in Buckinghamshire. He was buried in
the Lillingstone Lovell Cemetery. |
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For further
details of William H Collett and his family see Part
46 - The Charlton-on-Otmoor (Oxon) Area |
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Collett,
W R 19
years |
Rifleman
S/20722 |
1st
Battalion Rifle Brigade |
18
May 1916 |
W
R (William Reuben) joined the Rifle Brigade in June 1916 and was sent to the Western
Front at the conclusion of his training and fought at St Eloi and the
Somme. He gave his life for King and
country at the Battle of Arras and was entitled to the General Service and
Victory Medals. |
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William
Reuben Collett was born at Battersea, the youngest of the three surviving
sons of Reuben John Collett and his wife Helen Eliza Collett of
Battersea. The family of five was
residing at 75 Tasman Road in Stockwell, London in 1911 when William Reuben
was 13. His father was 44 and a
compositor, his mother was also 44, and his two brothers were Leonard who was
21 and an engine tuner and George who was 18 and a machine manager for a
printer, both born at Battersea. In
1881 Reuben |
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Collett,
Walter Victor 19 years |
Private
15221 |
10th
Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regt |
|
Walter
Victor was born in 1897 and was the son of George and Emma Collett of
Blackwell north of Shipston-on-Stour in Warwickshire. His name appears on the Thiepval Memorial. |
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For further
details of Walter Victor Collett and his family see Part
11 - The Welford |
ROYAL
NAVY
Name |
Rank |
Regiment |
Date of Death |
Collett,
Arthur Benjamin 26 years |
Lieutenant |
Royal
Navy Volunteer Reserve |
|
Arthur
Benjamin was born in 1892 at Great Yarmouth and was the son of James Collett
of 2 Highfield Road in Cape Town, South Africa. He was buried at Dunkirk Town Cemetery. A further naval record states that Collett, Arthur B, Ty/Lieutenant, RNVR, out of Plumpton
in Devon, died on 19 October 1918 when his ship HMS Plumpton hit a mine.
|
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For
further details of Arthur Benjamin Collett and his family see Part
18 - The Suffolk Line (Ref. 18Q59) |
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Collet,
Charles Herbert 27 years |
Flight
Commander |
Royal
Naval Air Service |
19
August 1915 |
Charles
Herbert Collet(t) was born in Calcutta on 4th February 1888, the second
son of James Francis Herbert Collett of ‘Woodleigh’ Westend, Millbrook,
Southampton, late of the Public Works Department of the Government of India,
an engineer, and his wife Teresa the daughter of Francis and Teresa Pilley. He was educated at Elizabeth College in
Guernsey and Dulwich College in London, and joined the Royal Marine Artillery
on 1st September 1905. He
was promoted to Lieutenant on 1st July 1906 and transferred to the
Naval Wing of the Royal Flying Corp in 1913 where he was gazetted
Flight Commander on 23rd February 1915. |
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At
the outbreak of the war he served on the Western Front, taking part in the defence of Antwerp until the evacuation, and after at the
Dardanelles. He successfully carried
out the first long distance air raid into enemy territory of the war, when he
bombed the Zeppelin Sheds at Dusseldorf on 23rd September
1914. Conditions were rendered very
difficult by the misty weather, but Flight Lieutenant Collett flying a
Sopwith tractor biplane made a long flight and dropped three bombs on the
Zeppelin Sheds within 400 feet. His
plane was hit by one projectile but returned safely back to base. During two sorties he was shot down, but on
both occasions he managed to avoid capture and
escaped to safety. |
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While
in the Dardanelles he participated in the landing on the Gallipoli Peninsular
on25th April 1915 and engaged with many hostile enemy aeroplanes. It was four months later that he lost his
life when he was taking off from Imbros Aerodrome, when at 150 feet, his
engine cut out and the plane plummeted to ground and burst into flames. He was buried at the Lancashire Landing
Cemetery in Turkey. |
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While
he was serving with the Royal Marine Artillery he
received the DSO and was twice mentioned in Despatches. While stationed at Royal Naval Flying
School at Eastchurch he was the first officer of the Naval Air Service to
loop the loop. A further naval record
states that Collet, Charles H, Flight Commander
(Lieutenant, RMA), 3rd Wing, RNAS, died on 19 August 1915 as
a result of an air crash at Gallipoli. |
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Collett,
Ernest Harry 25 years |
Leading
Cooks Mate M/2997 |
Royal
Navy |
|
Ernest
Harry was born in 1892 the husband of Mrs F B Weeks (formerly Collett) of 6
Elm Terrace, |
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For
further details of Ernest Harry Collett and his family see Part
39 - The Clanfield Oxfordshire |
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HMS
Vanguard
was a battleship and suffered an internal explosion while in Scapa Flow on 9th
July 1917 killing all but 19 of her crew of 823. |
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Collett,
Frank |
Private
PLY/10685 |
Royal
Marine Light Infantry |
13
May 1915 |
Frank
served and died on board HMS Goliath
and his name appears on the Plymouth Naval Memorial. |
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HMS
Goliath
was a battleship torpedoed by a Turkish destroyer Muavenet-I-Millet off De
Tott’s Battery in the Dardanelles on 13th May 1915 with the loss
of 570 men. |
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For
further details of Francis Ernest (Frank) Collett and his family see Part 2
- The Secondary |
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Collett,
Frederick James 21 years |
Able
Seaman J/46313 |
Royal
Navy |
|
Frederick
James was born in 1896 and was the son of Frederick Arthur and Amy Matilda
Collett of 11 MacKenzie Road at Beckenham in Kent. He served and died on board HMS Mary Rose and his name appears on
the |
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HMS
Mary Rose was a destroyer that was sunk on 17th October
1917 by the German cruisers Brummer and Bremes off the coast of Norway. |
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For
further details of Frederick James Collett and his family see Part
71 - The Lambeth and Bermondsey Colletts (Ref. 71Q16) |
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Collett,
Frederick William 25 years |
Able
Seaman SS/1669 |
Royal
Navy |
|
Frederick
William Collett was born in 1889 the husband of May A Collett of 41 Alfred
Street at Kings Heath in Birmingham and the son of Frederick William Collett
of Worcester. He served and died on
board HMS Good Hope and his name
appears on the |
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HMS
Good Hope was a cruiser attacked and sunk by two German cruisers
the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau during the Battle of Coronel off the coast of
Chile |
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For
further details of Frederick William Collett and his family see Part
56 - The Line of Thomas Collett of Alcester (Ref. 56P4) |
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Collett,
Harry 23
years |
Ordinary
Seaman J/49879 |
Royal
Navy |
31
May 1916 |
Harry
was born in 1893 the son of Benjamin and Lucy Ann Collett of The Gasworks at
Gomersal in |
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For further
details of Harry Collett and his family see Part
36 – The Barwick-on-Elmet (Leeds) |
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Collett,
Henry Willie 18 years |
Boy
1st Class J/18135 |
Royal
Navy |
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Henry
Willie was born in 1896 and was the son of William Thomas and Sarah Ann
Collett of Corner House at Bletchingdon in Oxfordshire. He served and died on board HMS Bulwark and his name appears on
the |
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For further
details of Henry William Collett and his family see Part
38 - The Oxford [Combe] Stonemasons |
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HMS
Bulwark
was a battleship destroyed by an internal explosion on 26th
November 1914 while loading ammunition at Sheerness. Only 12 men survived the blast. |
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Collett,
Jack 18
years |
Air
Mechanic 2nd Class F/20396 |
Royal
Navy Air Service |
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Jack
was born in 1899 and was the son of Edwin and Fanny Collett of |
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For
further details of Jack Collett and his family see Part 21
- The Cornwall Line (Ref. 21Q118) |
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HMS
Airship C27 was the second airship to be shot down in action. On that fateful day three German seaplanes
attacked the vessel bringing it down with the loss of all five crew members,
including Jack Collett. Airship C26
was subsequently dispatched to locate the downed sister ship but run out of
fuel and came down in occupied Holland where the crew were interned for the
remainder of the war. |
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Collett,
|
Able
Seaman J/19404 |
Royal
Navy |
|
John
Francis Collett was the son of Mr William Henry & Mrs Ellen Collett of 50
Lawn Road at Hampstead in London and served with HMS Astraea. |
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For further
details of John Francis Collett and his family see Part 2
- The Secondary |
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Collett,
John Henry 32 years |
Private
PLY/14601 |
Royal
Marine Light Infantry |
31
May 1916 |
John
Henry was born in 1884 the husband of Katherine T Collett of 6 Bishop’s
Buildings in |
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For
further details of John Henry Collett and his family see Part
49 - The Kirtlington [Oxon] to California Line (Ref. 49P6) |
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Collett,
John William 19 years |
Ordinary
Seaman SS/16825 |
Royal
Navy |
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John
William was born in 1897 the son of Harry and Annie Collett of |
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HMS
Hampshire was a cruiser that, on 5th June 1916, hit a
mine off the Orkney Islands with only 12 survivors. A passenger on board the vessel was British
Commander-in-Chief, Lord Kitchener, age 66, who was travelling to St
Petersburg for a meeting with the Czar of Russia and his Generals to try to
persuade them to remain in the war against Germany. Only a small number of men survived and
they were instructed to say nothing of the night’s event, for fear of
creating panic at the loss of Lord Kitchener. |
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For further
details of John William Collett and his family see Part 55
- The Wakefield & Leeds |
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Collett,
Leonard 33
years |
Leading
Seaman 23971 |
Royal
Navy |
|
Leonard
was born in 1882 the husband of Elsie Louisa Collett of 42 Cornwall Road at
Handsworth in Birmingham and the son of the late Mr & Mrs Collett of
Wimbledon. He served and died on board
HMS Formidable and his name
appears on the |
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HMS
Formidable was a battleship that was sunk off Portland Bill by a
torpedo from the German submarine U-24 on 1st January 1915
resulting in the death of 547 men from her crew of 780. |
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Collett,
N C |
Probationary
Flight Officer |
Royal
Navy Air Service |
|
N
C was buried at Bromley, Plaistow in Kent grave reference A95. A further naval record states that Collett, Norman C, Ty/Py/Flight
Officer, Royal Naval Air Service died on 29 January 1918 in an air crash in
the United Kingdom. |
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For
further details of Norman Charles Collett and his family see Part
51 - Descendents of the Gloucestershire Line (Ref.
51Q5) |
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Collett,
Robert William 24 years |
Stoker
1st Class SS/111186 |
Royal
Navy |
|
Robert
William was born in 1893 and was the son of George and Sarah Collett of
Islington. He served with HMS Pembroke
and he was buried at Islington Cemetery.
A further naval record states that Collett, Robert W, Stoker 1c, SS 111186 (Ch), HMS Pembroke died on 3
September 1917during the bombing of Chatham Naval Barracks. |
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Collett,
William Alfred |
Private
CH/1902 S |
Royal
Marine Light Infantry |
|
William
Alfred’s name appears on Bay 1 of the Arras Memorial. A further naval record states that Collett, William A, Private, RMLI, S 1902 (Ch), RND, 1st
RM Battalion, died on 28 April 1917 when he was killed in France. |
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For
further details of William Alfred Collett and his family see Part
18 – The Suffolk Line (Ref. 18Q147) |
ROYAL
FLYING CORPS & ROYAL AIR FORCE
Name |
Rank |
Regiment |
Date of Death |
Collett,
Clive Franklyn |
Captain
MC and Bar |
Royal
Flying Corp |
|
Clive
Franklyn was the son of Horace and Alice Collett of New Zealand and was
buried at Comely Bank Cemetery in |
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See Part 62
– The Trowbridge to New Zealand Line (Ref. 62O36) and
separate web file entitled Clive Franklyn Collett |
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Collett,
Ernest Joseph |
Private
328156 |
Royal
Air Force |
|
Ernest
Joseph was buried at |
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Collett,
George |
Leading
Airman 76978 |
Royal
Air Force |
|
George
was the husband of Violet May Collett of |
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This is NOT
George Henry Collett (Ref. 34Q10) of |
Name |
Rank |
Regiment |
Date of Death |
Collett,
Arthur 32
years |
Private
3703 |
Australian
Infantry AIF |
|
Arthur
was born in 1884 and was the son of Robert D and Grace Collett of Eldorado in
|
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Collett,
Ernest Oswald 20 years |
Bombardier
19618 |
Australian
Field Artillery |
|
Ernest
Oswald was born in 1897 and was the son of Ernest Augustus and Lucy Alice
Collett of Hokitika, Ferncroft Avenue, East Malvern in Victoria and was
buried at the St Sever Cemetery in Rouen – see historical note. |
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For further
details of Ernest Oswald Collett and his family see Part
62 – The Wiltshire Line to New Zealand & Australia (Ref. 62O59) |
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Collett,
Frank 24
years |
Private
1519 |
19th
Battalion Australian
Infantry AIF |
|
Frank
was born in 1891 at |
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Collett,
Gerald Arthur 28 years |
Corporal
2363 |
Imperial
Camel Corps |
|
Gerald
Arthur was born in 1889 the husband of Emily E Collett of Balcarres in |
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For further
details of Gerald Arthur Collett and his family see Part
22 – The Somerset & Wiltshire |
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Collett,
Henry 21
years |
Private
1519 |
24th
Battalion Australian Infantry AIF |
|
Henry
was born in 1894 and was the son of William Henry & Emily Collett of The
Post Office at Maryborough in Victoria.
He was buried at the |
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For further
details of Henry Collett and his family see Part 8
– The |
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The Lone Pine Cemetery at Anzac contains
the known graves of eleven New Zealanders including nine who served with the
Australian Imperial Force in Turkey. |
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Collet,
Herbert 26
years |
Private
605 |
Australian
Imperial Infantry Force 25th Battalion |
4
August 1916 |
Herbert
Collet(t) born in 1890, the son of Fernand Louis Collet and Marie Ines
Collett of Pozieres, Mawbray Road, Chatswood,
NSW. He was buried in Grave IU17 at Becourt Military Cemetery at Becordel-becourt. |
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Collett,
John Montague |
Private
5967 |
Australian
Infantry AIF |
|
John
Montague Collet(t) was a native of |
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Collett,
Joseph Wilton 20 years |
Private
4161 |
Australian
Infantry AIF |
|
Joseph
Wilton was born in 1897 and was the son of Joseph William and Lucinda Collett
of Ulmarra, |
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For further
details of Joseph Wilton Collett and his family see Part
12 – The Oxfordshire Chipping Norton |
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Collett,
Percy Philip 22 years |
Trooper
3414 |
Australian
Light Horse |
|
Percy
Philip was born in 1896 a native of Appin in |
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For further
details of Percy Philip Collett and his family see Part
20 – The |
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Collet,
R S |
Private
2782 |
Australian
Imperial Infantry Force 35th Battalion |
15
July 1917 |
R S Collet name
appears on the Ypres Menin Gate, panel 7, 17, 23,,
25, 27, 29, 31 |
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For
further details of Robert Stratfold Collett and his family see Part
63 – The Collett-Stratfold-Collet Line (Ref. 63P6) |
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Collett,
Wallace Edward 35 years |
Private
2149 |
Australian
Imperial Force |
|
Wallace
Edward was born in 1884 the husband of Mrs Henrietta Collett of Summerhill
and was buried in Sydney. |
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For
further details of Wallace Edward Collett and his family see Part
15 – The Kenilworth & Coventry |
Name |
Rank |
Regiment |
Date of Death |
Collett,
Albert 24
years |
Private
722088 |
|
|
Albert
Edmond Gordon was born in 1894 the husband of Elizabeth Collett of 26
Primrose Street at Manningham in Bradford and the son of John and Carrie
Collett of Larkspur Farm at Winnipeg in Manitoba. |
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Collett,
Ernest 20
years |
Private
794068 |
2nd
Battalion Canadian
Machine Gun Corps |
|
Ernest
was born in 1898 and was the son of Mrs Robinson Collett of Eel River, |
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Collett,
F 27
years (sic) |
Private
808414 |
|
|
Frank
was actually born in 1887 and was the son of the
late Robert and Agnes Catherine Collett of 21 Bradburn Street at Cheetham in
Manchester. His grave is at the La
Chaudiere Military Cemetery in Vimy. His
older brother Frederick Collett (Ref. 11P47) was killed in 1915 and his younger
brother Edmund Collett (Ref. 11P52) was killed in 1918, both
of them serving with the King’s Own Royal Lancashire Regiment. |
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For
further details of Frank Collett and his family see Part
11 - The Welford-on-Avon Line (Ref. 11P48) |
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Collett,
F 29 years |
Private
1037755 |
|
|
F
was born in 1889 and was the son of James and Sarah Maria Collett of |
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Collett,
Frederick Percival |
Lance
Corporal 113143 |
|
|
Frederick
Percival was the husband of Florrie Collett of |
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Collett,
F T |
Private
59187 |
2nd
Battalion |
|
Collett,
F W |
Sapper
2504079 |
Canadian
Engineers |
|
Collett,
H 31 years |
Sapper
678245 |
6th
Battalion Canadian Railway Troops |
|
H
was born at Hadzor near Droitwich and was the husband of Mary Collett of |
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Collett,
Joseph Clovis 23 years |
Private
817032 |
|
|
Joseph
Clovis was born in 1894 the husband of Myrtle Ethel Collett of Marsh Bridge
at St John in New Brunswick and was the son of Mrs H Collett 19 Brunswick
Street in St John. His name appears on
Panel 26/28 of the |
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Collett,
Percy Stapleton 29 years |
Private
817913 |
Eastern
Ontario Regiment Princess Patricia’ C Light I |
|
Percy
Stapleton was born in 1888 and was the son of the late George Alfred Collett
and his name appears on Panel 10 of the |
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For
further details of Percy Stapleton Collett and his family see Part
18 – The Suffolk |
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Collett,
V |
Private
412564 |
1st
Battalion |
|
V’s name appears on
Panel 10 of the |
Name |
Rank |
Regiment |
Date of Death |
Collett,
Charles William 42 years |
Private
47622 |
|
|
Charles
William was born in 1876 and was the son of Thomas George and Mary Ann
Collett of Mangaroa in |
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For further
details of Charles William Collett and his family see Part 6
– The |
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Collett,
George Herbert 24 years |
Private
51256 |
|
|
George
Herbert was the son of James and Priscilla Collett of 3 Bond Street at Grey
Lynn in Auckland New Zealand. He was
buried at Hooge Crater Cemetery, 4 kilometres east of Ieper. |
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For
further details of George Herbert Collett and his family see Part
58 – The Line of Henry Vine Collett (Ref. 58P24) |
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Collett,
John Spowart 31 years |
Private
8/3533 |
1st
Battalion Otago Regiment NZEF |
|
John
Spowart was the son of Samuel Collett and Marion Spowart of Irwell Street at
Gore near Invercargill, where John was born.
He also served at Suez in Egypt, while his name appears on the
Grevillers (New Zealand) Memorial at Pas de Calais. |
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For
further details of John Spowart Collett and his family see Part 13
– The Stroud to South Africa & New Zealand Line (Ref. 13Q6) |
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Collett,
37
years |
Rifleman
25/1689 |
NZ
Rifle Brigade |
|
Stanley
Beaconsfield was born in 1881, the son of Henry and Rosa Collett of
Chippenham in Wiltshire, and his name can be found at the Doullens Communal
Cemetery Extension Number 1. |
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For
further details of Stanley Beaconsfield Collett see Part 62
– The Trowbridge to New Zealand Line (Ref. 62N26) |
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The Doullens Communal
Cemetery Extension No 1 contains 1,335 Commonwealth burials of the First
World War. There are also seven French and 13 German war graves from this
period. Doullens is a town in the
Department of the Somme, approximately 30 kilometres north of Amiens on the
N25 road to Arras. |