Lieutenant Cyril John Pile

Regiment: Royal Field Artillery and Royal Flying Corps
Date published: 01/06/1917
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 29/04/1917
Age at death: 19
Cemetery: Feuchy Chapel British Cemetery, Wancourt, Pas de Calais, France
Plot: III. C. 19.
Information: Lieutenant Cyril John Pile, Royal Field Artillery and Royal Flying Corps, who was killed in action in his 19th year, was the youngest son of Sir Thomas D. Pile, of Kenilworth House, Willesden Lane. He was born at Rathgar, Dublin, and was educated at Mill Hill School, London. Leaving there when 18 years of age, he joined the Royal Field Artillery as Second Lieutenant, and was gazetted to the Royal Flying Corps in January, 1916. Lieut. Pile was a very enthusiastic and successful Flying officer, and within three weeks of his appointment was sent to the front. He lost his life while scouting, being suddenly attacked by an enemy aeroplane, whom he defeated. Unfortunately the lower planes of his machine were shot away in the combat. He managed to bring the machine safely down to within a few hundred feet, when it suddenly collapsed, Lieutenant Pile being so badly injured that he died almost immediately.