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Personal data

• Name WATERS
• Initials EG
• First name ERIC GORDON
• Place of birth Forrest Row
• Country Sussex, England
• Family Son of James and Elizabeth A. Waters, of Oakcroft, Forest Row, Sussex; three sisters and seven brothers;

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment October 1914
• Rank Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit 6th Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
• Other data related to military career also served in the Hampshire Yeomanry Regiment; seconded for duty with the Signal Troop of the 1st South Western Mounted Brigade; assistant-instructor at the School of Military Engineering September 1915 - June 1916, attached to FRC; to France 2 October 1916;

Death

• Wounded Escorting photographic patrol; BE2g 7175 was shot up; observer Sgt Slingsby climbed into the pilot's cockpit and succeeded in landing between Vlamertinge and Ypres; he survived.
• Type of wounds Killed in action, shot in the back and head;
• Date of death 24 January 1917
• Died at the age of 30
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery X - A - 1

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