Colonel Herbert Brayley Collett (1877-1947) was an Australian politician, librarian and soldier. He joined the Metropolitan Rifle Volunteers at the age of 16 and rose to command the 11th Australian Infantry Regiment as a lieutenant-colonel. With the outbreak of World War I he commanded the 28th Battalion of the first Australian Imperial Force, serving at Gallipoli, in Egypt and Sinai and in France. On 29 July 1916, he was wounded at the battle of PoziA?res, returning to action in 1917 at the Battle of Passchendaele. He was promoted to colonel in June 1918 and discharged in September 1919. He was mentioned in dispatches and was made a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George and was promoted brevetcolonel. He wrote about his experiences in The 28th: A Record of War Service with the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-1919 (1922). In 1933, Collett was appointed to fill a casual vacancy in the Australian Senate, representing the...

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