South Cadbury War Memorial

St. Thomas à Becket Church

Somerset

Memorial within the church:

Pray for the soul of

 CYRIL TALBOT BURNEY CROFT

Second Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps and 9th Somerset Light Infantry.

Accidentally killed whilst flying at Castle Bromwich December 8, 1915.

"Translated from the warfare of the world into the peace of god".

(CWGC says his name was Burnley and not Burney)

The Church and churchyard

Grave within the churchyard of  Private W.S. Chapman

Somerset Light Infantry, 19th April 1919

aged 21.

The inscription on the headstone reads: Also in memory of 15131 Pte. F. W. Chapman, RMLI, HMS "Lion", killed at the battle of Jutland.

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