Harold Ross Eycott Martin

Captain Harold Ross EycottMartin MC began and ended his military career in the Royal Engineers. While seconded for duty with the Royal Air Force, he would win a Military Cross in the wellknown air action in Italy in which Alan Jerrard won his Victoria Cross. EycottMartin would end the war as a flying ace credited with eight aerial victories. In the aftermath of the war, he would fall into disgrace. After being declared bankrupt, he would desert the Engineers and be ejected from the army.

Harold Ross EycottMartin was born in Haywards Heath, Sussex, England in 1896. He was the eldest son. His father was a civil servant in Bechuanaland. His mothers home residence in England was Lindfield, West Sussex, near Haywards Heath.

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