Name
Eric Gordon Montague Bugg
27/05/1899
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/09/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Royal Air Force
11th Sqdn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
St Andrew's Church Memorial, Bramfield
Pre War
Eric Gordon Montague BUGG was born on 27th May 1899, in Bramfield, Hertfordshire, son of Albert Bugg a Farmer and Jane Bugg (nee Major). The youngest of their four children. His parents were married on 2nd January 1894, in Broadwindsor, Dorset.
He was Baptised on 16th August 1899, in Bramfield, Herts.
1901 Census records Eric aged 1, living with his parents, sisters Marjorie (7), Viola (4) and brother Albert (5), at Green Hall (Farm House), Bramfield, Herts.
1911 Census, Eric aged 11, is at school, living with his parents, and sisters Marjorie (17) and Viola (14), still at Green Hall Farm, Bramfield, Herts.
Wartime Service
Eric enlisted in July 1917, aged 18, in the Royal Flying Corps, as a 3rd Class, Air Mechanic, issued with the service number 86893, joining the Royal Flying Corps at South Farnborough, Hampshire.
Eric was discharged to a temporary commission as a 2nd Lieutenant on 22nd April 1918, at the time he was stationed at Blandford Camp, Dorset, on completion of his officer training he was posted to 11 Squadron Royal Air Force. (On 1st April 1918, the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service were amalgamated and became the Royal Air Force).
In the early part of September 1918, 11 Squadron were around the East Bank of the Canal du Nord, Cambrai, France. On 4th & 6th September 1918, 11 Squadron were very active, they claimed a total of ten enemy fighters downed. On 6th September 1918, saw the first Squadron fatalities since May 1918, during morning reconnaissance patrols, Lt. C.B. Seymour (Pilot) and 2Lt. E.G. Bugg (Observer) were killed in their Bristol F2b. Fighter No. C4745, and Lt. E.N. Underwood (Pilot) and 2Lt. C.M. Coleman (Observer) were killed in their Bristol F2b. Fighter No. D7906, both aircraft were attacked by enemy aircraft and downed. Erics body was never found he is commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial in France.
Additional Information
His effects of £20-18s-01d, went to his father Albert Bugg.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
