Cecil Francis Kilner | |
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Nickname(s) | Jo |
Born | Kemsing, Kent, England | 8 October 1883
Died | 20 October 1925 London, England | (aged 42)
Buried | |
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/ | Royal Marines Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force |
Years of service | 1902–1925 |
Rank | Group Captain |
Awards | Distinguished Service Order |
Group Captain Cecil Francis Kilner, DSO*, ADC (8 October 1883 – 20 October 1925) was an early English aviator and pilot in the 1914 Cuxhaven Raid. He was awarded two Distinguished Service Orders during service with the Royal Naval Air Service during the First World War, he died as a Royal Air Force Group Captain in 1925 after a short illness.[1]
Kilner was born on 8 October 1883 in Kemsing, Kent 12 April 1887 the son of William and Frances Kilner.[1]
He graduated from the Royal Military College at Sandhurst,[1] and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Royal Marine Light Infantry on 1 September 1902.[2] In the 1911 Census he was described as a Lieutenant of the Royal Marines Light Infantry aboard HMS Swiftsure in the Grand Harbour, Malta.[3]
In 1919 he transferred to the new Royal Air Force with a permanent commission as a Major.[6] In early 1925 he was appointed as Air Aide-de-Camp to the King but he died soon after in London on 20 October 1925 at 16 Beaumont Street, London.[7]