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Title: Frederick Victor Collett
Post by: arft on Thursday 01 March 12 14:58 GMT (UK)

I have two birth certificates, one from 1914 and the other from 1917, both in orsett essex. Father is Frederick Victor Collett. Mother is Ada Elizabeth Blythe.
I cannot find any record of frederick's birth, marriage or death

Title: Re: Frederick Victor Collett
Post by: bishenbertie on Thursday 01 March 12 15:06 GMT (UK)

I searched for the birth without success I'm afraid.

Perhaps some records were lost during the WWI so don't appear on the databases.

Title: Re: Frederick Victor Collett
Post by: bishenbertie on Thursday 01 March 12 15:10 GMT (UK)

Possible death:-

 
Name: COLLETT, Frederick
Registration district: Hackney
County: London
Year of registration: 1918
Quarter of registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
Age at death:1
Volume no: 1B
Page no: 1087

Title: Re: Frederick Victor Collett
Post by: suffolk*sue on Thursday 01 March 12 15:33 GMT (UK)

Found the following birth.

 COLLETT, Frederick Victor

Station : Malta
Country: Malta
1896
Page: 73
 GRO Army Birth Indices (1881 to 1965)

This ones parents look to be

Henry Collett
Mary Josephine Twomey
Sep 1889
Registration district: Cork
Volume: 5
Page: 83
FHL Film Number: 101256

Title: Re: Frederick Victor Collett
Post by: Jebber on Thursday 01 March 12 16:00 GMT (UK)

His father Harry COLLETT was in the Royal Engineers, records on FindMyPast.

Fredrick died 1915
Name: Frederick Victor Collett
Birth Place: Valetta, Malta
Death Date: 10 Jun 1915
Death Location: France & Flanders
Enlistment Location: Windsor, Berks
Rank: Private
Regiment: Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
Battalion: 2nd Battalion
Number: 20160
Type of Casualty: Died of wounds
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre
Comments: Formerly 9461, R. Warwick Regt


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