Colonel Colonel (abbreviated as Col., Col or COL) is a senior military officer rank used in many countries. It is also used in some police forces and paramilitary organizations. In the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, a colonel was typically in charge of ...

Edward Orlando Kellett (19 May 1902 – 22 March 1943) was an

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Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

and

British Army The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurk ...

officer who was killed in action during the fighting in Tunisia during the

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. The son of Major-General Richard Orlando Kellett, Kellett graduated from the

Royal Military College, Sandhurst The Royal Military College (RMC), founded in 1801 and established in 1802 at Great Marlow and High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England, but moved in October 1812 to Sandhurst, Berkshire, was a British Army military academy for training infantry a ...

, and was commissioned as a

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into the Irish Guards on 1 February 1923. In 1928 he was confirmed as a lieutenant in the reserves. On 1 March 1930 he transferred to the Territorial Army (TA) as a

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in the

Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry (SRY) was a British Yeomanry regiment. In 1967 it was amalgamated with other units to form the Royal Yeomanry (RY), a light cavalry regiment of the Army Reserve. Originally raised as the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Cav ...

. By 1939 he was a major and in May 1939 was elected as

for Birmingham Aston. He was also a big game hunter. The Second World War saw Kellett fighting in Tunisia as a colonel of the

Royal Armoured Corps The Royal Armoured Corps is the component of the British Army, that together with the Household Cavalry provides its armour capability, with vehicles such as the Challenger 2 Tank and the Scimitar Reconnaissance Vehicle. It includes most of the A ...

. He was killed in March 1943, aged 40, during the fighting in North Africa and is buried in

Sfax War Cemetery Sfax War Cemetery is a war cemetery located near Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia, currently maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. It contains a single Commonwealth burial from World War I, 1253 Commonwealth burials from World War II (52 of ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kellett, Edward 1943 deaths Irish officers in the British Army Royal Armoured Corps officers British Army personnel killed in World War II Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1935–1945 Irish Guards officers Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry officers 1902 births Burials at Sfax War Cemetery