Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
CASSIDY, CYRIL MARTIN, 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps, youngest son of Thomas Cassidy, of Church End, Finchley; b. Ilford, co. Essex, ... Jan. 1893; educated Mercers' School, London, and King's College, from which latter he obtained, by open competition, a clerkship in the Estate Duty Office, Somerset House; joined the Artists' Rifles in Oct. 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; left for France with the 1st Battalion 27 Oct. 1914, and after passing through the Cadet School at Bailleul was given a temporary commission in 1st King's Royal Rifle Corps, 23 April, 1915. He was mortally wounded during the advance near Richebourg l'Avoué, in the Battle of Festubert, on the night of 15-16 May, 1915, while leading his platoon over the parapet of a German trench, and died in the Field Ambulance the following night. Buried in the Town Cemetery, Bethune, 18 May, 1915; unmarried.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
CASSIDY, CYRIL MARTIN, 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps, youngest son of Thomas Cassidy, of Church End, Finchley; b. Ilford, co. Essex, ... Jan. 1893; educated Mercers' School, London, and King's College, from which latter he obtained, by open competition, a clerkship in the Estate Duty Office, Somerset House; joined the Artists' Rifles in Oct. 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; left for France with the 1st Battalion 27 Oct. 1914, and after passing through the Cadet School at Bailleul was given a temporary commission in 1st King's Royal Rifle Corps, 23 April, 1915. He was mortally wounded during the advance near Richebourg l'Avoué, in the Battle of Festubert, on the night of 15-16 May, 1915, while leading his platoon over the parapet of a German trench, and died in the Field Ambulance the following night. Buried in the Town Cemetery, Bethune, 18 May, 1915; unmarried.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
CASSIDY, CYRIL MARTIN, 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps, youngest son of Thomas Cassidy, of Church End, Finchley; b. Ilford, co. Essex, ... Jan. 1893; educated Mercers' School, London, and King's College, from which latter he obtained, by open competition, a clerkship in the Estate Duty Office, Somerset House; joined the Artists' Rifles in Oct. 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; left for France with the 1st Battalion 27 Oct. 1914, and after passing through the Cadet School at Bailleul was given a temporary commission in 1st King's Royal Rifle Corps, 23 April, 1915. He was mortally wounded during the advance near Richebourg l'Avoué, in the Battle of Festubert, on the night of 15-16 May, 1915, while leading his platoon over the parapet of a German trench, and died in the Field Ambulance the following night. Buried in the Town Cemetery, Bethune, 18 May, 1915; unmarried.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
CASSIDY, CYRIL MARTIN, 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps, youngest son of Thomas Cassidy, of Church End, Finchley; b. Ilford, co. Essex, ... Jan. 1893; educated Mercers' School, London, and King's College, from which latter he obtained, by open competition, a clerkship in the Estate Duty Office, Somerset House; joined the Artists' Rifles in Oct. 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; left for France with the 1st Battalion 27 Oct. 1914, and after passing through the Cadet School at Bailleul was given a temporary commission in 1st King's Royal Rifle Corps, 23 April, 1915. He was mortally wounded during the advance near Richebourg l'Avoué, in the Battle of Festubert, on the night of 15-16 May, 1915, while leading his platoon over the parapet of a German trench, and died in the Field Ambulance the following night. Buried in the Town Cemetery, Bethune, 18 May, 1915; unmarried.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
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Second Lieutenant, King's Royal Rifle Corps. Age: 22.
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