Service Details
Name:
 HENDERSON
Given Name:
 ERIC JOSEPH
Initials:
 E J
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Captain
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Regiment:
 Royal Flying Corps
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Unit:
 70th Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1917-03-25
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Age:
 19
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, flying on Sopwith Strutter as Pilot. In reconnaissance patrol over the Hindenburg Line near Cambrai with several aircrafts of the Squadron. Shot down during a combat against nine enemy aircraft. Five Sopwith Strutter of the Squadron were destroyed (five sustained the same fate the day before)
Decorations:
 M C
Citations:
 LG Sup 4 June 1917 pg. 5480
Additional
Information:
Son of Robert Hugh Henderson, C.M.G., M.L.A., and Mrs. Sarah Matilda Henderson, of Johannesburg, South Africa. Educated at St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown. ref. The sky their battlefield of Trevor Henshaw
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
 ACHIET-LE-GRAND COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
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Grave Reference:
 IV. Z. 7.

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