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  • SANDYS
  • WE
  • WILLIAM EDWIN
  • Calcutta
  • India
  • Lillooet, Canada
  • Son of Francis Edwin and Mary Llewellyn Sandys
  • Bath
    St. Paul's School
  • Manager in transport business
  • Husband of Elsie Constance Violet Pitcher, of 58, Anson Rd., Tufnell Park, London

Military service

  • 22 September 1914, Valcartier, Canada
  • Lieutenant
  • 32nd Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
  • Served in a militia cavalry regiment, the 31st British Columbia Horse, C Squadron. Joined the first Canadian Contingent in Lord Strathcona's Horse in 1914 as a Pte, 2708 commissioned general list. Embarked for Egypt, December 1915, as Adjutant to his brother-in-law Captain F.J.Grandin. Left Egypt in February 1916; into RFC in June 1916; certificate taken on Maurice Farman Biplane, 8 September 1916; left for the Front on 1 August 1917

Death

  • 5 September, offensive patrol with A9374 DH5; combat with enemy aircraft, shot down, crashed in Ypres Canal
  • Killed in action; burried at military cemetary n°17 CCS the same evening by R.F.C.
  • 5 September 1917
  • 24
  • XVIII - H - 8

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