Name
Eric Macintosh Haileybury
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/07/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Hertfordshire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Goffs Oak Memorial
Cheshunt Town Memorial
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Haileybury College (and page280 of The Haileybury Register 1862 -1911)
Pre War
Haileybury College E. Macintosh is recorded in the Batten House manuscript Record in February1911 having won the set prize for maths. In March 1914 Macintosh is recorded in the House rugby team.
Wartime Service
Hertfordshire Mercury August 18th 1917 Lieut. Eric Macintosh, Herts Regt, (Territorials), who was killed on July 31, was the son of Mr and Mrs Ewen Macintosh, 53, Bedford Court Mansions, London, WC. and formerly of Burleigh, Cheshunt. He was born in 1897 and was educated at Haileybury College. He passed the London Matriculation examination in 1914 and received his commission in March 1915, being promoted lieutenant, (temporary) in the following October. He went to the Front last November. The regimental chaplain writes. He fell facing the enemy. His men tell me that he was wounded in the hand and refused to leave them and was shortly afterwards killed by a piece of shell. He was as brave as the bravest of our officers, always cheerful and dear to the hearts of us all.
Additional Information
Medals not applied for by his family.
Acknowledgments
Brian Lodge, Hertfordshire Mercury/County archives Haileybury College and Archives.
