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NAME:                      Collet, Charles Herbert
RANK:                      Flight Commander
UNIT:                      Royal Naval Air Service
BATTALION ETC:             3rd Wing and (Captain) Royal Marine Artillery
REGIMENTAL NUMBER:         
HOW DIED/DATE OF DEATH:    19th August 1915
WHERE BURIED/COMMEMORATED: Lancashire Landing Cemetery, Turkey (including Gallipoli)
OTHER INFORMATION:         DSO.;  Mentioned in Despatches x 2. Age 27.
                           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.