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First Name: | Eric John | Last Name: | PASCOE |
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| Date of Death: | 14/04/1917 | Lived/Born In: | Lee | |
| Rank: | Second Lieutenant | Unit: | Royal Flying Corps 29tgh Squadron | |
| Memorial Site: | Lee, St Mildred | |||
Current Information:Age-23 Izel-les-Equerchin Communal Cemetery, France
April 1917 was a bad month for the Royal Flying Corps during which they lost 245 aircraft and had 207 aircrew killed. ‘Bloody April’, as it became known was a result of the aerial war during the Battle of Arras. To support the ground offensive the Royal Flying Corps deployed 25 squadrons, totalling 365 planes which did not fare well against a smaller but more efficient and better trained German air force whose Albatros fighter plane surpassed anything the British possessed. Eric Pascoe was killed on 14th April, 1917 serving with 29th Squadron of the Royal Flyling Corps, a fighter squadron flying Nieuport Scouts.
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