Capes, CW
(1899 - 1918)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
24th January 1899
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1910 - 1916
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
Torresdale, 122 Perry Vale, Forest Hill
REGIMENT
Royal Air Force
FINAL RANK:
Lieutenant
DATE OF DEATH:
6th July 1918
AGE AT DEATH:
19
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Scilly Isles
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Hollybrook Memorial, Southampton
Lieutenant Cyril Wentworth Capes
Cyril was born on January 24th 1899, the eldest child of stockbroker William Capes and his wife Florence. He was not the first in his family to attend Dulwich; two of his maternal uncles were OAs, and he was at the College at the same time as his cousin, John Furneaux.
By the time he came to leave school the War was already well underway, and Cyril went straight from Dulwich into the Royal Naval Air Service, soon earning his “wings” as a fully qualified pilot; when the R.A.F. was created the next year he was promoted to Lieutenant. He was declared missing on July 6th 1918, when his seaplane disappeared whilst he was engaged in routine patrol work off the Scilly Isles, no further news was forthcoming, and he was later legally declared dead.
