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Personal data

• Name STEARNS
• Initials EG
• First name ERIC GORDON
• Place of birth Hornsey
• Country Middlesex, England
• Family Son of Thomas Robert Stearns of Lansdowne, Woodridings, Hatch End and Alice Grant.
• Education St.John's college; Lower School, Harrow
• Profession Clerk in the Sun Insurance Office
• Extra info Joined the Artists' Rifles (28th London Regt.Pte 1178) in 1912; went to France October 1914; commissioned 2nd Lt. April 1915 and posted to the Royal Fusiliers

Military service

• Rank Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit 4th Bn. Royal Fusiliers
• Division - Brigade 9th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 3rd Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career Joined the Artists' Rifles in 1912; to France October 1914; given a commission as 2nd Lt., 6 april 1915; to

Death

• Wounded Hooge; while in charge of a party digging a new trench
• Type of wounds Bullet caught him just above the hip and passed upwards
  Died at Abeele of wounds received in action in Belgium.
• Date of death 6 August 1915
• Died at the age of 20
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery I - A - 2

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