CORLET, Douglas Richmond
(Service number 27226)
| First Rank | Private | Last Rank |
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Birth
| Date | 18 May 1893 | Place of Birth | Johnsonville, Wellington |
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Enlistment Information
| Date | Age | ||
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| Address at Enlistment | Waimate | ||
| Occupation | Coach painter | ||
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| Next of Kin | Thomas CORLET (father), Pleasant Point, South Canterbury | ||
Military Service
| Served with | NZ Armed Forces | Served in | Army |
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Embarkation Information
| Body on Embarkation | New Zealand Expeditionary Force | ||
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| Unit, Squadron, or Ship | 17th Reinforcements, J Company | ||
| Date | 25 September 1916 | ||
| Transport | Devon | ||
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Award Circumstances and Date
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Prisoner of War Information
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Death
| Date | 8 July 1961 | Age | 68 years |
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| Place of Death | Lower Hutt | ||
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| Memorial or Cemetery | Taita Cemetery, Lower Hutt | ||
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Biographical Notes
Douglas Richmond Corlet was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth (née Richmond) Corlet. He was educated at Opawa School, Christchurch, and at Timaru South School, leaving there for an apprenticeship in 1906. At noon on 31 May 1916, South Canterbury’s quota of the 17th Reinforcements was entertained at dinner in Stafford Tea Rooms by the lady members of the South Canterbury War Relief Society. The soldiers assembled at the Drill Hall at 3.30 pm to be farewelled by the Mayor before leaving on the north-going express. In this quota was C. R. Corlet. Douglas married Edith Mary Wright in 1921. Edith died in 1923, and Douglas married Sarah Beatrice Sachtler. Sarah died just a few months after Douglas.
Sources
Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [12 September 2019]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [12 September 2019]; Taita Cemetery, Hutt Valley, headstone transcription [12 September 2019], School Admission records [12 September 2019]; Timaru Herald, 31 May 1916 (Papers Past) [17 October 2015]
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