STORRER, Eric McKay (1898-1980)
STORRER, Eric McKay (1898-1980)
Born on 11 March 1898, Eric McKay Storrer was the son of Charles Pringle Storrer and Elizabeth nee Robertson.
Eric was a day student at Geelong College, enrolling in 1908 and leaving in 1914. His address at entry was Aphrasia St, Geelong.
During World War I, he enlisted in the AIF on 14 October 1918, but did not embark for overseas service due to the demobilisation of the AIF.
Eric lost two cousins at the Great War: Sgt Charles Murray Storrer (1894-1915), also an Old Geelong Collegian, who died on 5 June 1915 of wounds sustained four days earlier on Gallipoli, and was buried in Beach Cemetery, Anzac; and Captain Henry Haigh Storrer, of 3 Squadron, AFC, who was killed in action in France on 2 December 1917, when his plane crashed into the brick wall of the Bailleul Cemetery in a sudden squall as he took off on an artillery patrol. Henry Haigh Storrer was buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension.
His brother, Charles Hubert Storrer (1884-1922), was also educated at Geelong College.
Born on 11 March 1898, Eric McKay Storrer was the son of Charles Pringle Storrer and Elizabeth nee Robertson.
Eric was a day student at Geelong College, enrolling in 1908 and leaving in 1914. His address at entry was Aphrasia St, Geelong.
During World War I, he enlisted in the AIF on 14 October 1918, but did not embark for overseas service due to the demobilisation of the AIF.
Eric lost two cousins at the Great War: Sgt Charles Murray Storrer (1894-1915), also an Old Geelong Collegian, who died on 5 June 1915 of wounds sustained four days earlier on Gallipoli, and was buried in Beach Cemetery, Anzac; and Captain Henry Haigh Storrer, of 3 Squadron, AFC, who was killed in action in France on 2 December 1917, when his plane crashed into the brick wall of the Bailleul Cemetery in a sudden squall as he took off on an artillery patrol. Henry Haigh Storrer was buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension.
His brother, Charles Hubert Storrer (1884-1922), was also educated at Geelong College.
Source
Based on an edited extract from ‘Geelong Collegians at the Great War’ compiled by James Affleck. pp 321-322 (citing The Pegasus; Australian War Memorial).