SECOND LIEUTENANT
Cyril Harvey Trollope
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Flying Corps
Died 04 May 1917
Age 20 years old
Buried or commemorated at
BROMLEY (PLAISTOW) CEMETERY
L. 81.
Secondary Unit, Regiment
"C" Coy. 2nd/14th Bn. London Regiment (London Scottish)
Son of Effie Trollope, of 8, Durham Avenue, Bromley, and the late John Basil Trollope. Educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh.∼In 1915 he joined the London Scottish Regiment in which he obtained his commission. He transferred to the RFC towards the end of 1916 and received his "wings" in 1917. During the week before he was due to go to the front he was test flying a plane in Doncaster when it crashed killing Cyril and his passenger.
Cyril Harvey Trollope
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Flying Corps
Died 04 May 1917
Age 20 years old
Buried or commemorated at
BROMLEY (PLAISTOW) CEMETERY
L. 81.
Secondary Unit, Regiment
"C" Coy. 2nd/14th Bn. London Regiment (London Scottish)
Son of Effie Trollope, of 8, Durham Avenue, Bromley, and the late John Basil Trollope. Educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh.∼In 1915 he joined the London Scottish Regiment in which he obtained his commission. He transferred to the RFC towards the end of 1916 and received his "wings" in 1917. During the week before he was due to go to the front he was test flying a plane in Doncaster when it crashed killing Cyril and his passenger.
SECOND LIEUTENANT
Cyril Harvey Trollope
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Flying Corps
Died 04 May 1917
Age 20 years old
Buried or commemorated at
BROMLEY (PLAISTOW) CEMETERY
L. 81.
Secondary Unit, Regiment
"C" Coy. 2nd/14th Bn. London Regiment (London Scottish)
Son of Effie Trollope, of 8, Durham Avenue, Bromley, and the late John Basil Trollope. Educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh.∼In 1915 he joined the London Scottish Regiment in which he obtained his commission. He transferred to the RFC towards the end of 1916 and received his "wings" in 1917. During the week before he was due to go to the front he was test flying a plane in Doncaster when it crashed killing Cyril and his passenger.
Cyril Harvey Trollope
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Flying Corps
Died 04 May 1917
Age 20 years old
Buried or commemorated at
BROMLEY (PLAISTOW) CEMETERY
L. 81.
Secondary Unit, Regiment
"C" Coy. 2nd/14th Bn. London Regiment (London Scottish)
Son of Effie Trollope, of 8, Durham Avenue, Bromley, and the late John Basil Trollope. Educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh.∼In 1915 he joined the London Scottish Regiment in which he obtained his commission. He transferred to the RFC towards the end of 1916 and received his "wings" in 1917. During the week before he was due to go to the front he was test flying a plane in Doncaster when it crashed killing Cyril and his passenger.
Inscription
In dear memory of
Cyril Harvey Trollope
2nd Lieut London Scottish & R.F.C.*
only child of
John Basil and Effie Trollope
Accidentally killed, flying
May 4.1917, aged 20.
Per ardua ad astra
And of
John Basil Trollope
who died Oct 3.1925
1925
in his 61st year
* Royal Flying Corps
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