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Capt. Ralph Barrie Erskine
British Army 8th Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
from:Glenafton, Church Road, Wimbledon
(d.23rd April 1943)
Barrie Erskine was born in January 1918, two weeks after his father Captain Ralph Erskine RFC was killed in Italy when his Sopwith Camel was shot down behind enemy lines.
Educated at Harrow, Barrie was by all accounts a charming man with some unconventional habits such as standing in front of an open fire and lifting his kilt to warm his bottom!He joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1940 and was killed in action while laying telephone cables at the Battle of Longstop Hill on 23rd of April 1943.