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Flight Commander CHARLES HERBERT COLLET

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Naval Air Service

3rd Wing

Date of Death

Died 19 August 1915

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LANCASHIRE LANDING CEMETERY

K. 49.

Turkey (including Gallipoli)

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment and (Capt.) Royal Marine Artillery
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Distinguished Service Order, Twice Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of James Francis Herbert and Teresa Collet (nee Pilley), of "Woodleigh," Westend, Southampton. Successfully carried out the first long distance air raid into enemy territory of the war, when he bombed the Zeppelin sheds at Dusseldorf on 22nd Sept.1914.
  • Personal Inscription HE LEAVES A WHITE UNBROKEN GLORY, A GATHERED RADIANCE. R.I.P.
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