COLLETT, Gerard Dudley
| Service Number: | 3364 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 October 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 3 Corps Signals |
| Born: | Surrey, England, 1 March 1896 |
| Home Town: | Bruce Rock, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farm Hand |
| Died: | Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 12 April 1970, aged 74 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Woden (Canberra) Public Cemetery, ACT |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 20 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3364, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
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World War 1 Service
| 29 Jan 1917: | Involvement Private, 3364, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Miltiades embarkation_ship_number: A28 public_note: '' | |
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| 29 Jan 1917: | Embarked Private, 3364, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Miltiades, Fremantle | |
| 21 Dec 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Sapper, 3 Corps Signals | |
| 9 Aug 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 3364, 3 Corps Signals |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Sergeant Gerard Dudley Collett (Service No:3364) enlisted in the AIF on 20 October 1916 and was a Private attaced to 51st Infantry Battalion on 29 January 1917 when he embarked from Fremantle for Devonport on board HMAT A28 Militades. Private Collett served in France as a Sapper/Driver, Corporal and Sergeant with 3rd Division Signal Coy. Sergeant Collett was Discharged in England on compassionate grounds on 9 August 1920 - his pregnant wife was not well enough to make the journey.
Born in 1896 in Surrey England, Gerard was sixth of seven children of William Richard Collett (b1864 in Surrey, England) and Martha Louisa Peak (b1864 in Surrey, England). William (a Clerk) and Louisa married in 1887 in Surrey where they settled and raised their family and William was an Accocuntant.
In 1911 Gerard - fifteen years of age - enlisted in the Coldstream Guards (Regimental No:8951) and in 1913 Gerard arrived in Melbourne, Victoria on board the Demosthenes. By 1915 Gerard was working as a Farm Hand at Kummunin via Bruce Rock in Western Australia. In 1919 in Surrey, England Gerard married Winifred (Winnie) Kick (b1897 in Surrey, England) - Winnie's father was an Accountant in Surrey. Gerard and Winnie lived in Surrey - where Gerard worked as a Clerk, and their two children were born - until 1922 when they arrived in Albany WA on board the Euripides as part of the Group Settlement Scheme. Gerard and Winnie lived at Group 49 Settlement in Serpentine until the late 1920s/early 1930s. Winnie returned to England with the children, and in 1939 in Yilgarn WA, Gerard remarried to Dorothy Rose Richardson Binks (b1915 in Echuca, Victoria) - Dorothy was a Nurse (Denmark and Perth). Gerard and Dorothy moved to Canberra ACT, where Gerard worked as an Accountant with the Department of Customs and Trade. Gerard died in 1970 and Dorothy in 1982.