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- LUBBOCK
- THFP
- The Hon.ERIC FOX PIT
- Langham
- Kent, England
- High Elms, Kent
- Son John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury and Alice Augusta Laurentia Lane Fox-Pitt-Rivers, Lady Avebury (second wife of John).
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Eton (1905)
Oxford (1912) - Student
- Five brothers and five sisters. He was the eighth.
Militaire dienst
- September 1914
- Captain
- M C ("For conspicuous gallantry and skill on October 26th, 1915, when he attacked a German Albatros machine at a height of 9,000 ft. with machine-gun fire. The hostile pilot was shot and the aeroplane was brought to the ground", Flight magazine, November 1915)
- 45th Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
- 5 September 1914, soldier, n° 3500, Army Service Corps; promoted Lance Corporal 17 September 1914; 23 September sailed for France, N°69 Mechanical Transport Company; Arques; personal driver Capt.Bullard; Supply Officer, n°4 Divisional Supply Column; probationary observer attached to the RFC (31 August 1915) 5 Sqn; pilot training (January 1916); 22 Sqn; 45 Sqn; Flying Officer (mid 1916); active service in France (October 1916), Fienvillers and Ste-Marie-Cappel.
Overlijden
- Line Patrol; shot down, Railway Wood near Ypres; crashed and wrecked; at 11.15 am his A1082 Sopwith Strutter was attacked by 2 Albatros D.IIIs flown by Ltns Strähle and Flink of Jasta 18; observer Thompson neither survived. John Thompson had exposed five plates (later on salvaged from the wreckage); another Sopwith was involved in the combat and shot down. Ltns Bowden and Stevenson did not survive. All four bodies were recovered and buried at Lijssenthoek on 12 March.
- KIA
- 11 March 1917
- 23
- X - A - 13
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