Eric Charles Child

A Major with the Royal Army Service Corps, Eric died on 3rd of April 1947 aged 42. 

Eric was born at Cambridge on 16 February 1905, a son of The Reverend Charles James Napoleon and Gertrude Annie Louisa Child. He was baptised at Saint Botolph’s Church, Cambridge, on 19 March 1905 and his family lived at Lynfield, Tenison Avenue, Cambridge. In 1911 their address was 19 Tenison Avenue, Cambridge. In 1921 they lived at Moulton Rectory, Newmarket. By 1939 Eric’s father had died and his mother lived at Elderslie, Chestnut Avenue.

Eric was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps on 16 March 1940, service number 123339. He became a War Substantive Lieutenant and Temporary Captain on 20 August 1941 and, on 21 February 1944 he was promoted War Substantive Captain and Temporary Major. 
Eric died at Haifa, Palestine.