Albert Jonas August Collett

Albert Jonas August Collett was born at Christiania on 17.12.1892 and was the youngest of the ten children of Albert Peter Severin Collett and Nanna Hoegh. At the age of 18 he and two of his brothers, Ove and Knut (above), who were still living in the family home at Uranienborg Terrasse 11 in Christiania with their widowed mother Nanna Collett. When he was twenty-four years old Albert (John) Collett of Norway was listed as an immigrant to Australia, where at Isisford on 28th October 1916, he was issued with an Alien Registration Certificate. Isisford at that time was a very a small township in the middle of Queensland.

Sadly just over two years later Albert died five days before his twenty-sixth birthday on 12th December 1918. The cause of death was the Spanish flu pandemic which was sweeping around the world at that time. A headstone at the multiple Collett grave in Vestre Gravlund in Oslo bears the inscription “Albert J A Collett F. 17 Dec. 1892 D. 12 Dec. 1918” and is one the same headstone as his father Albert and mother Nanna.