Clive Franklyn Collett [SEP] conflict
Clive Franklyn Collett
Captain Clive Franklyn Collett (28 August 1896—23 December 1917) was a World War I flying ace from New Zealand credited with 11 aerial victories. He was the first British or Commonwealth military pilot to use a parachute, in a test. While serving as a test pilot, he crashed to his death in a captured German fighter.
Early life.
Collett was born in Blenheim, New Zealand on 28 August 1886. His father, Horace Edwin Collett, lived at Lambeth, London, England.
old.
There are relatively few graves of note:-
- Jeannie Cockburn (1898–1918) a rare female war grave from WW1 (Lady Driver)
- Clive Franklyn Collett MC and bar (1886–1917) WW1 flying ace
- Sir Patrick George Don-Wauchope Baronet (1898–1989)
- Reginald Earnshaw (1927–41) Merchant Navy. UK's youngest war grave
- William Miller Frazer RSA (1864–1961), landscape artist
- William Murray Frier (1911–2014) centenarian
- Alexander Gamley (died 1906) and Fanny