Name
Eric Reginald Muir
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
31/07/1941
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
Suffolk Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HITCHIN CEMETERY
West Section
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not CWGC
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, Hitchin Roll of Honour 1939 – 1945 (Book) St Mary’s Church, Hitchin
Biography
Before the war he worked at the Letchworth Bacon Factory for a number of years. He also played the saxophone and guitar in a local band He joined up in June 1940 but was discharged during the course of a long illness after being sent to Chalkdell Hitchin Emergency Hospital.
He is buried in Hitchin Cemetery West Section next to R.J. Fraas.
He was the only son of Mr and Mrs P.J. Muir of 10, Lancaster Ave, Hitchin and his father was an active member of the Hitchin Brotherhood.
Additional Information
Not in the CWGC records.
His headstone in Hitchin Cemetery nears the inscription:
IN SWEET REMEMBRANCE OF
A DEARLY LOVED SON AND BROTHER
DIED 31 JULY 1941, AGED 27 YEARS
HE HAS LEFT US SUCH BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, Herts Pictorial dated 12th August 1941
