Second Lieutenant Cyril Talbot Burney CROFT

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Killed in a flying accident at Castle Bromwich, 8th December 1915 aged 24

• Buried: South Cadbury (St Thomas a Becket) Churchyard, Somerset
  
• Awarded British War and Victory Medals
  
• Son of Otho Talbot Bourdois Croft and Lucy Allan Croft of South Cadbury Rectory, Cadbury, Somerset
• NNWFHS Memorial: Curdworth Airmen Memorial
  

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for 2nd Lt Croft
• NNWFHS Curdworth War Memorial Page
• South Cadbury Churchyard
• Royal Flying Corp | Somerset Light Infantry

Military, Census and Family History Information

• Born 28 Jan 1891 in Streetsville, Peel, Ontario, Canada
• Educated at King’s College, Taunton and St Boniface College, Warminster
• Employed as a secretary [1914]
  
• Enlisted 27th August 1914
  
• Gazetted to 2nd Lt in March 1915