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Lieutenant Carleton Aquilla Crysler

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Military service

Age: 24
Rank: Lieutenant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: royal air force
Division: 23rd Sqdn.
Birth: February 1, 1894 Delhi, Ontario
Death: May 20, 1918

Burial/memorial information

ADELAIDE CEMETERY (VILLERS-BRETONNEUX)
Grave reference: II. K. 20.
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Son of Aquilla and Christina Crysler, of Delhi, Ontario. Brother of Pauline and Gertrude and Nursing Sister Edith Crysler.

Lieutenant Crysler, who was nineteen years of age, concluded his studies at the Simcoe High School in June 1917 and entered the Royal Flying Corps as a cadet. He qualified with an exceptionally high standing, going overseas in November, and when killed had been in France for only two months.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 585 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ADELAIDE CEMETERY (VILLERS-BRETONNEUX) Somme, France

Villers-Bretonneux is a town 16 kilometres east of Amiens and the ADELAIDE CEMETERY is situated west of the village on the north side of the main road from Amiens to St. Quentin.

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