Detail victim

Name NOSWORTHY
Initials CWM
First name CLAUDE WILLIAM MICHE
Place of birth Jamaica
Country Jamaica
Family He was the third son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Nosworthy, of Jamaica.
Education Exeter School and McGill University, Montreal, where he was studying engineering at the outbreak of the war.

Place & date of enlistment September 1914
Rank Lieutenant
Regiment and unit 10th Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
Attached or transferred from Royal Field Artillery
Other data related to military career Commissioned October 1914, 108th Battery RFA; ; to France on 31 August 1915;
In November 1915 he became adjutant to his brigade, being, in October, 1916, gazetted to the Regular Army. He fought through the battles of Loos and the Somme. In February 1917 he was attached to the R.H.A., and in September he joined the R.F.C.

Wounded Artillery observation patrol; aerial combat with enemy aircraft; his B5774 Armstrong-Whitworth FK8 was shot down, crashed; Nosworthy was the observer, 2Lt AC Ross the pilot (also died of wounds and buried in Lijssenthoek)
Type of wounds died of wounds
Date of death 6 December 1917
Died at the age of 22
Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVI - BB - 10