Cyril won the World Sidecar Championship in 1952. He started his racing career at the age of 20 as a grass track racer, riding motorcycles and sidecars.
He was a bespectacled electrician who worked in a Teesside garage.
At the outbreak of World War II he served as a Sergeant Major in the tank regiment of the British Army where he sustained a fractured skull at Tobruk, Libya, after being blown up by a mine.
After the war Cyril resumed his racing career in which he sustainaed several injuries, some serious.
His body was found in a hotel room at Keswick where he had killed himself.
Husband of Irene Smith and father to Kathleen Dibben (nee Smith).
His headstone was placed on the grave, by his daughter, 42 years after his death.
Cyril won the World Sidecar Championship in 1952. He started his racing career at the age of 20 as a grass track racer, riding motorcycles and sidecars.
He was a bespectacled electrician who worked in a Teesside garage.
At the outbreak of World War II he served as a Sergeant Major in the tank regiment of the British Army where he sustained a fractured skull at Tobruk, Libya, after being blown up by a mine.
After the war Cyril resumed his racing career in which he sustainaed several injuries, some serious.
His body was found in a hotel room at Keswick where he had killed himself.
Husband of Irene Smith and father to Kathleen Dibben (nee Smith).
His headstone was placed on the grave, by his daughter, 42 years after his death.
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