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