Detail victim

Name LUBBOCK
Initials THFP
First name The Hon.ERIC FOX PIT
Place of birth Langham
Country Kent, England
Last residence High Elms, Kent
Family Son John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury and Alice Augusta Laurentia Lane Fox-Pitt-Rivers, Lady Avebury (second wife of John).
Education Eton (1905)
Oxford (1912)
Profession Student
Extra info Five brothers and five sisters. He was the eighth.

Place & date of enlistment September 1914
Rank Captain
Medals 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)
Regiment and unit 45th Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
Other data related to military career 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.

Wounded 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.
Type of wounds KIA
Date of death 11 March 1917
Died at the age of 23
Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery X - A - 13