The 1921 census for England and Wales extended to men serving overseas with the armed forces. The records for service personnel in India include 23-year-old Cecil James Yeo, an unmarried army Lieutenant stationed at Deolali in the Maharashtra region.
Cecil had been born in Purley, Surrey in 1897 to parents James Yeo and Edith Florence Ralph; he remained in the army, serving in Hong Kong and Kenya between the wars and reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He died in England in 1942 while serving with the East Surrey Regiment – his burial at Radlett in Hertfordshire is commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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