In Memory Of

PASCOE, ERIC JOHN

Service Details
Age:
 23
Date of Birth:
 1894-03-24
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
Unit:
 29th Sqdn.
Regiment:
 Royal Flying Corps
Former Regiment:
 formerly 3rd Lancs Fusiliers
Date of Death:
 1917-04-14
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, shot down SE of Fresnoy, near Arras by Rittmeister Kurt von Doring of Jasta #4.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 145
Cemetery:
 IZEL-LES-EQUERCHIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Pas de Calais
Country:
 France
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