COLLETT, Rowland Francis
| Service Numbers: | 618, Q164787 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 September 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Army Pay Corps (AIF) |
| Born: | London, England, 20 January 1872 |
| Home Town: | Ipswich, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 14 October 1945, aged 73 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland |
| Memorials: | Ipswich Soldier's Memorial Hall Great War |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 618, 41st Infantry Battalion | |
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| 18 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 618, 41st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Demosthenes embarkation_ship_number: A64 public_note: '' | |
| 18 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 618, 41st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Demosthenes, Sydney | |
| 6 Nov 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 41st Infantry Battalion | |
| 19 Oct 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Corporal, 618, Army Pay Corps (AIF), embarked from England for RTA per HT Sardinia |
World War 2 Service
| 8 Feb 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 618, Army Pay Corps (AIF) | |
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| 10 Nov 1939: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Q164787 | |
| 10 Feb 1942: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Q164787, Staff Sergeant; 2 AIF Reception Dept HQ |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
ER 2nd Corporal Rowland Francis Collett (Service No:618) enlisted in the AIF on 30 September 1915 and served with 41st Infantry Battalion in France. Private Collett embarked from Sydney for Plymouth on 18 May 1916 on board HMAT Demosthenes A64, and was promoted to Lance Corporal on 6 November 1916. Lance Corporal Collett was awarded two Blue Chevrons on 17 May 1917, and was hospitalised in England on three occasions with Pneumonia, Quinsey and Myalgia. He was briefly attached to Anzac Provost Corps before being posted to Australian Army Pay Corps, and was ER 2nd Corporal when he embarked for the RTA from England on board HT Sardinia D24 on 19 October 1918 for Discharge on 8 February 1919.
In WWI, Staff Sergeant Rowland Francis Collett (Service No:Q164787) served with 2 AIF Reception Dept HQ from 10 November 1939 to 10 February 1942.
Born in 1872 in London England, Rowland was the second of seven children of Francis (Frank) Alexander Edwards Collett (b1844 in London, England) and Laura Augusta Wedlake (b1845 in London, England). Frank (a Banker's Clerk) and Laura married in 1870 in Essex and moved to Guernsy in the Channel Islands in the mid 1970s where Frank was an Auctioneer. In 1884 Frank and Laura immigrated with their children, arriving in Fremantle WA on board the Glengoil and settling in Perth where Frank was a Coffe House Keeper until his death in 1891.
Rowland worked as a Clerk in Perth, where in 1894 he married Louisa Allen (b1876 in Adelaide, South Australia). Rowland worked in Perth, Geraldton and Coolgardie (where he was part owner of the Denver City Hotel) before leaving for Brisnae, QLD. He and Louisa divorced in 1903, and Rowland remarried in Brisbane to Hannah Tibbetts Phillips (nee Fellows; b1879 in Worcestershire, England). Following Hannah's death in 1907, Rowland married his third wife in 1908 in Ipswich, QLD - Louisa Frances DeLong (b1876 in Ipswich, QLD). Rowland and Louisa settled in Ipswich, QLD where they raised their family and Rowland worked as a Clerk. Rowland died in 1945 and Louisa in 1952.
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