Eric Wilfred Hall

A Sergeant with 1st Wing, Eric died on 12th of June 1943 aged 25. 

Eric was born at Bermondsey, London, on 5 September 1917, a son of Wilfred Edward and Margaret Amelia Hall. The 1921 Census shows Eric with his grandparents, William and Sarah Gooch, at 93 Beccles Road, Lowestoft. Eric’s father die din 1932 and by 1939 his family were living at 113 Wollaston Road and Eric was a shop assistant and roundsman. 

During the Second World War Eric joined the Royal Norfolk Regiment. Subsequently he was transferred to the Gilder Pilot Regiment and was trained to fly gliders during airborne operations. 

On 12 June 1943 Eric, with Staff Sergeant Wheale, was flying a Horsa glider from the U.K. to Tunisia, as part of Operation Beggar. The glider crashed at Thiersville and both Eric and Staff Sergeant Wheale were killed.