Colin Campbell Garbett

Sir Colin Campbell Garbett KCIE CMG CSI (22 May 1881 – 10 August 1972) was a British civil servant who worked in the colonial service in India and Iraq.

[1] He became a District Judge at Simla in 1913 and then served as a postal censor in Karachi and Bombay (1915-16) before becoming a Chief Political Officer in 1916 with the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force.

[3] On 9 December 1920 the Bristol Fighter[a] in which he was travelling to Kirkuk overturned on landing at Tauq[b], killing the pilot.

Garbett was made a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in 1918 "in recognition of meritorious services rendered in connection with military operations in Mesopotamia.

[10] He was elevated within the Order of the Indian Empire and made a Knight Commander (KCIE) in the 1941 Birthday Honours.

In the 1970s, probably following clearance of his wife's house after her death, an urn containing his ashes was found at a recycling centre in Surrey, discarded in a waste skip.