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Name SANDYS
Initials WE
First name WILLIAM EDWIN
Place of birth Calcutta
Country India
Last residence Lillooet, Canada
Family Son of Francis Edwin and Mary Llewellyn Sandys
Education Bath
St. Paul's School
Profession Manager in transport business
Extra info Husband of Elsie Constance Violet Pitcher, of 58, Anson Rd., Tufnell Park, London

Place & date of enlistment 22 September 1914, Valcartier, Canada
Rank Lieutenant
Regiment and unit 32nd Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
Other data related to military career 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

Wounded 5 September, offensive patrol with A9374 DH5; combat with enemy aircraft, shot down, crashed in Ypres Canal
Type of wounds Killed in action; burried at military cemetary n°17 CCS the same evening by R.F.C.
Date of death 5 September 1917
Died at the age of 24
Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XVIII - H - 8