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
- 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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