Service Details
Name:
 PASCOE
Given Name:
 ERIC JOHN
Initials:
 E J
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Royal Flying Corps
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Unit:
 29th Sqdn.
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Former Regiment:
 formerly 3rd Lancs Fusiliers
Date of Death:
 1917-04-14
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Date of Birth:
 1894-03-24
Age:
 23
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, shot down SE of Fresnoy, near Arras by Rittmeister Kurt von Doring of Jasta #4.
Additional
Information:
Son of Henry Alfred and Lucy Rachel (nee Heywood) Pascoe, of "Shirley", Blinco Rd., Peterborough. Born Shroud Green, London, England. Educated Tiffin School, Kingston upon Thames, England 1907 ? 1910. Member of the St. Thomas' Boy Scout Troop, Durban; served with the NMR in GSWA 1914-1915; served as Private (#23390) in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry; served with the 3rd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers in France. Commemorated on WWI Memorials in St. Thomas' Church, Musgrave, Durban; St. Mary's Anglican Church, Greyville, Durban; St Mildred's Church, Lee, Lewisham, London, England; Boy Scout in the Durban City Hall, Natal Mounted Rifles & the Durban Cenotaph as well as the ECMS WWI Memorial in St. Peter's Presbyterian Church, Pietermaritzburg. Commemoration stone in Durban (West Street) Cemetery. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1914-1918
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
 IZEL-LES-EQUERCHIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 145

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