Achilles Della-Cassa

Gunner Achilles Della-Cassa, who was born Achille Della Casa, was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the Second World War.
He was born on 16 January 1913, in Kensington, the son of Italian-born hotel chef Cleto and Maud Della Casa (née Hill), of London. In 1939, Della-Cassa was working as a plasterer.Ancestry.com. 1939 England and Wales Register [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2018.
Aged 30, Della-Cassa died on 30 August 1943 while a prisoner of war working on Japan's Thailand-Burma Railway.Achilles Della-Cassa, roll-of-honour.org.uk. Retrieved 25 November 2015. He had been serving with 37 Coast Observer Detachment, Royal Artillery.
He is buried in Chungkai War Cemetery, Thailand.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Della-Cassa, Achilles, cwgc.org. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
Category:1913 births
Category:1943 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Italian descent
Category:Buried in Thailand
Category:Gunners