Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameCyril (Dimitrios) Spartali, 3C4R
Birth10 Jul 1888, East Preston, Lancs, England
Death13 Oct 1915, Loos, Belgium
MemoAccording to Andrew Tatham.
Burial1915, Commonwealth War Grave, Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Baptism6 Sep 1888, Greek Orthodox Cathedral, St Sophia, Moscow Road, Bayswater, London, England
Residence1915, 2 Palace Court, Bayswater, London, England
OccupationWorked for Ralli Brothers in India until WWl.
EducationTrinity College, Cambridge.
Note 12nd Lieutenant, 8th Royal Berkshire Regiment. Killed at 2nd Battle of Loos (Hulluch). One of the subjects of Andrew Tatham’s study of a group photograph of 50 WWl offers. Left estate of £270 to his mother.
God-parentsTheodore Schilizzi.
Note 1In business in India but invalided back to England with typhoid fever just as WWl broke out.
Note 2Cyril Spartali features in the remarkable photo project by Andrew Tatham who set about identifying and telling the story of all 46 men in a group photo of 8th battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, taken in May 1915 before they went to France.
Note 3Andrew Tatham’s extraordinary work was exhibited at the “In Flanders Fields Museum” at Ypres, Belgium, from 27th September 2015 to 3rd January 2016.
Note 4According to Andrew Tatham a great-great-great-nephew to Cyril Spartali was born on 7 June 2015.
Flags***, Calvocoressi, Cantacuzene, Coressi, Giustiniani Pi, Grimaldi, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Petrocochino, Ralli (Chaviara), Ralli (Pitsis), Ralli (Spechlis), Rodocanachi, Scanavi, Scaramanga, Sechiari, Spartali 1
FatherDimitrios (Michael) Spartali (1851-1894)
MotherVirginia (Antonios) Ralli (1859-1935)