Allegiance United Kingdom Role Member of Parliament Unit Royal Armoured Corps Name Edward Kellett Service/branch British Army | Battles/wars World War II † Battles and wars World War II Rank Colonel Died March 22, 1943 | |
Buried at Sfax War Cemetery, Tunisia Education Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Awards Distinguished Service Order | ||
Colonel Edward Orlando Kellett DSO (died 22 March 1943) was an English Member of Parliament and British Army officer who was killed in action during fighting in Tunisia during the Second World War.
The son of Major-General Richard Orlando Kellett, Kellett graduated from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant 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 as a lieutenant in the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry. By 1939 he was a major and in May 1939 was elected as Member of Parliament 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. He was killed in March 1943, aged 40, during the fighting in North Africa and is buried in Sfax War Cemetery.