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Field, Charles Valantine Geary (Lieutenant)
Killed in Action 1916-January-12
Birth Date: unkown date (age 20)
Born: Mooltan, India
not found
unmarried
Enlistment: Montreal, Quebec:
Enlistment Date: 1914-12-13
Service RFC
Unit 16 (BR) Sqn- Squadron (RFC)
Base France
Rank Lieutenant
Position observer-gunner
Service Numbers
Attached to the RFC from Central Ontario Regiment - 4th Bn. **S.L.**
1915-12-25: to 16Sqn as observer
1916-01-12: Field died in BE2c, 1712; when it was hit by an enemy AA shell at 4,000 feet over Beaucamps. It side-slipped, dived and burst into flames with two men seen to fall out. He was on an artillery registration mission at Haubourdin, near Lille France . His pilot Lt Edgar Francis Wanklyn Cobbold, (British) also died.
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