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Flight Lieutenant William Edgar Cayley

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Military service

Service number: C/3573
Age: 47
Rank: Flight Lieutenant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 17th Can. HQ Administration, Toronto, Ontario
Birth: May 11, 1897 Stratford, Ontario
Enlistment: December 11, 1940 Ontario
Death: December 7, 1944

Burial/memorial information

WHITBY (MOUNT LAWN) CEMETERY
Grave reference: Sec. L. Plot 4. Lot 7. Block 6.
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Son of William Charles Cayley and Phoebe Evelyn Coon, of Stratford. Husband of Florence Joscelyne Lomas, of Oshawa. Father of Jocelyn Ann and Marion Grace Cayley.

He served in France during the First World War with the 13th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, service number 126373. He was wounded in action on June 6, 1916.

During the Second World War, he served only in Canada for 1,330 days.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 270 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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WHITBY (MOUNT LAWN) CEMETERY Ontario, Canada

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