Ft. Cadet Cyril Casserly, 10th. TDS - a photo on Flickriver

            FLIGHT CADET
C.I. CASSERLY
ROYAL AIR FORCE
7TH NOVEMBER 1918

Flt. Cadet Cyril Ignatius Casserly, 10th. Training Depot Station, Royal Air Force.
Born on 1st. September 1895 at Tottenham, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada, the youngest son of Michael Joseph, a postmaster, and Margaret Casserly.
Educated at Parkdean Collegiate Institution on Jameson Avenue in Parkdale, Toronto, Ontario, 
In 1917 Cyril gave up his job, in Detroit, Michigan, and returned to Canada to enlist in the Royal Flying Corps.
After basic training at Camp Leaside, Toronto, in May 1918, Cyril was sent to Britain and was eventually posted to 10th. Training Depot Station, 39th. Training Division, 3 (Training) Group Midland at RAF Harling Road in Roudham, Norfolk.
He was in the final stages of training with 10th. TDS, when on Tuesday 5th. November 1918 he was fatally injured during a flight with Pilot Instructor, 2nd. Lt John Edward Hunt, when their Avro 504, serial number D7127, spun into ground.
Cyril died in the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital on Thursday 7th. November 1918, aged 23. He was buried on Armistice
Day in Grave: 54. 20. in the Military Section of Earlham Road Cemetery, Norwich, Norfolk.
He is commemorated on Page 601 of the First World War Book of Remembrance, Canadian Virtual War Memorial.


On 20th. July 1919, John Hunt was obliged to relinquish his RAF commission 'on account of ill health'. 
He is understood to have embarked on the SS Ruapehu for repatriation to New Zealand on 7th.June 1919, but it is not known if he reached his homeland,
On 10th. February 1920 his name was entered into the New Zealand War Deaths Register but, unusually, no entry appears under the column for place and date of death. His is not to be found in any CWGC register nor at the RAF's Central Church of St. Clement Danes on The Strand in London.
John's death was most likely related to the accident on 5th. November 1918, he was aged 29.
   

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