Norham Churchyard Section F Row 10 – 3 – Cayley

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Admiral Cuthbert Cayley died 1944 aged 78 years. Digby Leonard Arthur Cayley 1948. Beatrice wife of Arthur Cayley died 1945 aged 77.

This headstone is completly covered by a tree.

Military record

Cayley was promoted to the rank of Captain on 31 December, 1905.[7] On 12 January, 1906, St. Vincent paid off. He was appointed to President on 9 March for the War Course but this appointment was cancelled, and from 13 February to 31 July he was appointed to Rear-Admiral Spencer H. M. Login's Committee on Clothing, followed by an appointment to a Signal Course on 10 September. He was appointed to President for the War Course from 2 October to 25 January, 1907, and attained a First Class certificate.[8]

On 27 March, 1907, he was appointed to the Blake as Captain (D)[9] of the Home Fleet destroyer flotilla at Devonport. On 1 July, Cayley took command of the Leander, formerly of the destroyer flotilla at Chatham, which was replaced with the Blake.[10][11]

He was appointed to Terpsichore on 3 April, 1909, for service on the staff of the Royal Naval War College at Portsmouth. On 11 October he was appointed Assistant Director of Naval Mobilisation at the Admiralty. He remained there only briefly, however, being appointed on 1 January, 1910, in command of the armoured cruiser Minotaur as Flag Captain to Vice-Admiral Sir Alfred L. Winsloe, Commander-in-Chief on the China Station.[12]

Cayley served as Winsloe's Flag Captain in Minotaur during the whole of the latter's service in command of the China Station, and he gave up command on 28 February, 1913. On 20 May he was appointed to Ganges for command of the Shotley Training Establishment. In February, 1914, he went on sick leave after a bout of bronchitis. He was tried by Court-Martial on 16 April for "neglect of duty regarding supervision & counting of public money at Shotley" and was sentenced to be reprimanded. The Board of Admiralty considered, however, that Cayley's "career should not be seriously prejudiced by sentence."[