Hubert Christian CORLETTE OBE

CORLETTE, Hubert Christian

Service Numbers: Not yet discovered
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Major
Last Unit: King Edward's Horse
Born: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 27 June 1869
Home Town: Not yet discovered
Schooling: Sydney Grammar & Sydney University
Occupation: Architect
Died: Finchley, London, England, 23 April 1956, aged 86 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
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World War 1 Service

Date unknown: Involvement Major, King Edward's Horse

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Biography contributed

1902: Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant The Kings Colonials (1st King Edwards Horse).

1903: Lieutenant A Squadron (British Asian) as CO 3rd Troop (Australian).

London Gazette 18 August 1914. Special Reserve of Officers - Captain to be Major 11 June 1914.

London Gazette 4 June 1915. Placed on half pay list 5 June 1915.

London Gazette 13 November 1915. Temporary Major East Anglia Brigade Royal Field Artillery 14 November 1915.

Attached Royal Field Artillery. 1916 to 1918 Staff Duty.

Educated Sydney Grammar, Sydney University, London University. School of Architecture of the Royal Academy and the Slade School.

Architectural appointments included architect to the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad and to the Government of Jamaica.

Works and designs for many public buildings in England.

His many publications included a history Chichester Cathedral, Oxford: A School Architecture and Spanish Town, Jamaica. 

Awarded Order of the British Empire

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