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World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great 1914 1918 first battalion regiment
Mjr. Eric Seymour Conner MC & bar.
British Army 107th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:Exeter
My father Eric Conner served in the 106th and 107th brigades RFA. I don't really know much more but he won the MC and Bar and I have the citation for the Bar but not original MC. I would love to know what he did to win the MC. He survived the war and left the Army with the rank of Major (he was only 25 in 1918) and he returned to India and became a Tea Planter. He married and had 3 daughters.
He returned to join up in 1940 and joined the RA and because he could speak several Indian dialects he was, after training in London, appointed Commandant of a Transit camp in Southern India. He stayed in the Army after the war on a short service commission and was based in Okehampton, Devon and also Woolwich where he helped plan the ceremony for the addition to the RA Memorial on Hyde Park Corner. On leaving the army in 1948 he met and married my mother and had me in 1956 and then we moved to East Africa to help my father's brother run his coffee estates. He died in 1969 aged 75 following a car accident. I was only 12 and we never spoke of his WW1 War experiences but I have many photos, some paper work and his medals.
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