Name
Cyril Francis St Felix Daly
6 December 1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/10/1917
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 2.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
St. Peter's Church Memorial, Berkhamsted, Berkhamsted Collegiate School memorial
Pre War
Cyril Francis St Felix Daly was born on 6 December 1893 in Hadfield Street, Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana) in 1894, the son of Thomas St Felix Daly (a civil servant) and Edith Mary Daly (nee Hallaran).
On the 1911 Census Cyril was living with his widowed mother at Belvoir, Doctors Common Road, Berkhamsted, Herts, and he was a scholar, attending the Berkhamsted Collegiate School, which he left in 1912.
Wartime Service
He joined the The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment and was appointed 2nd Lieutenant with the 6th Battalion in November 1914, being sent to France on 6 August 1917.
Cyril was killed in action on 14 October 1917 during a raid on enemy trenches. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
Additional Information
A newspaper cutting in the Andrews Newspaper index Cards reads "DALY. - To the proud and beloved memory of CYRIL, my only son, 2nd Lt. 6th Queen's who fell in action at Monchy-le-Preux on Sunday Oct. 4th 1917. 'Faithful to God and King' ".
His mother received a war gratuity of £5 and pay owing of £73 9s 4d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, vc.id.au/tb/bgcolonists, www.iwm.org.uk
