DONCASTER - YORKSHIRE
Hyde Park Cemetery
Biography: Cathy Sedgwick
|
Second Lieutenant Anthony Steel CALDWELL
Royal Flying Corps Died: 4-5-1917 (Flying accident) aged 26years Son of Steel Caldwell & Lillian Caldwell, of "Eurabba," Young, N.S.W. Honoured: Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll 
Photo: Kelly Slater
|
Photo: Graham Bentley
| ||
Young Witness (N.S.W.) 8-5-1917
AVIATOR KILLED.
ANTHONY CALDWELL FALLS TO EARTH
Mr. and Mrs. Steel Caldwell, of Eurabba, near Young, and other members of the family, are mourning the loss of their youngest son, Anthony Caldwell, a member of the British Flying Corps, who has been killed accidentally while training in England.
The sad news comes as a crushing blow to the parents, for it is only a few months since another son was killed at Eurubba. Anthony Caldwell was a fervent patriot, destined to achieve his purpose at all costs when he enlisted for the flying corps, he was anxious to enter the School of Instruction and quickly emerge a fully fledged airman, capable of accomplishing the dangerous feats besetting the aviator.
With this object in view he paid his own fare to England, and wasted no time in gaining the preliminary instruction. He was making remarkable progress according to previous reports but apparently he came to grief as a result of some mechanical defect or other cause which is invariably associated with mishaps. The fatality is sincerely regretted by all who knew the young aviator.
AVIATOR KILLED.
ANTHONY CALDWELL FALLS TO EARTH
Mr. and Mrs. Steel Caldwell, of Eurabba, near Young, and other members of the family, are mourning the loss of their youngest son, Anthony Caldwell, a member of the British Flying Corps, who has been killed accidentally while training in England.
The sad news comes as a crushing blow to the parents, for it is only a few months since another son was killed at Eurubba. Anthony Caldwell was a fervent patriot, destined to achieve his purpose at all costs when he enlisted for the flying corps, he was anxious to enter the School of Instruction and quickly emerge a fully fledged airman, capable of accomplishing the dangerous feats besetting the aviator.
With this object in view he paid his own fare to England, and wasted no time in gaining the preliminary instruction. He was making remarkable progress according to previous reports but apparently he came to grief as a result of some mechanical defect or other cause which is invariably associated with mishaps. The fatality is sincerely regretted by all who knew the young aviator.