26078 Colonel Edward Orlando KELLETT, DSO, Royal Armoured Corps: 22/03/1943

Personal Number: 26078
Rank: Colonel
Name: Edward Orlando KELLETT, DSO
Unit: Royal Armoured Corps


London Gazette : 2 February 1923
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32792/page/806/data.pdf
The undermentioned Gentlemen Cadets, from the Royal Military College, to be 2nd Lts. 1st Feb. 1923: —
FOOT GUARDS.
Irish Gds.—
Edward Orlando Kellett.

London Gazette : 1 March 1930
TERRITORIAL ARMY
Lieutenant, Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry

 

Recommendation for Award for Kellett, Edward Orlando Rank: Major Service No:... | The National Archives
Reference: WO 373/22/334
Name Kellett, Edward Orlando
Rank: Major
Service No: P/26078
Regiment: Nottinghamshire Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps
Theatre of Combat or Operation: Middle East (Egypt and Libya)
Award: Distinguished Service Order
Date of announcement in London Gazette: 14 January 1943

 

COLONEL EDWARD ORLANDO KELLETT, DSO... 26078

THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST 1940-1947
IWM E20607 : Object description - Original wartime caption: The Army Commander pins the D.S.O. on to Lieut. Colonel E.O. Kellett, M.P. for Ashton Division of Birmingham. His regiment is the Notts (Sherwood Rangers) Yeomanry. Photo taken by Sergeant Drennan. Catalogued 28d12m1942.

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COLONEL EDWARD ORLANDO KELLETT
Service Number: 26078
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Armoured Corps
Nottinghamshire Yeomanry
Date of Death
Died 22 March 1943
Age 40 years old
Buried or commemorated at
SFAX WAR CEMETERY
XIII. A. 12.
Tunisia
Secondary Unit, Regimentand Commands and Staff General Staff
Country of Service : United Kingdom
Awards : Distinguished Service Order
Additional Info : M.P. for Aston Division of Birmingham, 1939 to 1943. Son of Major-General Richard Orlando Kellett, C.B., C.M.G., and of Eleanor Emily Kellett (nee Mallock); husband of Helen Myrtle Dorothy Kellett, of Paddington, London.
Personal Inscription : COMMANDED THE

 

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